Key Differences
Advantages of Apple M3
Advantages of Apple M1 Pro
Specifications
Performance
| Integrated GPU | Apple M3 GPU | Apple M1 Pro GPU (16-core) |
| TGP | 15 W | 30 W |
Display
| Type | Laptop | Laptop |
Other
| File compression | 1260 MB/sec | 1230 MB/sec |
| Clang compilation | 94.7 Klines/sec | 82.4 Klines/sec |
| HTML 5 Browser | 264.5 pages/sec | 249.1 pages/sec |
| PDF Renderer | 313.9 Mpixels/sec | 271.3 Mpixels/sec |
| Text processing | 297 pages/sec | 246.4 pages/sec |
| Background blur | 50.2 images/sec | 36.9 images/sec |
| Photo processing | 114.8 images/sec | 102.5 images/sec |
| Ray tracing | 12.9 Mpixels/sec | 10.7 Mpixels/sec |
| Integer math | 42.5 GOps/sec | 45.8 GOps/sec |
| Floating point math | 48.5 GOps/sec | 64.2 GOps/sec |
| Find prime numbers | 233M Primes/sec | 272M Primes/sec |
| Random string sorting | 27.4M Strings/sec | 32.6M Strings/sec |
| Data encryption | 11.5 GBytes/sec | 12.2 GBytes/sec |
| Data compression | 226.5 MBytes/sec | 273.1 MBytes/sec |
| Physics | 1857 Frames/sec | 2675 Frames/sec |
| Extended instructions | 10B Matrices/sec | 12.4B Matrices/sec |
| Cinebench 2024 / Watt | 35.6 PPW | 25.8 PPW |
| Geekbench 6 Multi / Watt | 590.8 PPW | 343.5 PPW |
| Passmark CPU Mark / Watt | 956.7 PPW | 730.9 PPW |
| Blender / Watt | 8.02 PPW | 6.23 PPW |
| Vendor | Apple | Apple |
| Released | October 30, 2023 | October 18, 2021 |
| Instruction Set | ARMv8 | ARMv8 |
| Codename | Apple M3 | Apple M1 |
| P-Cores | 4 | 8 |
| P-Threads | 4 | 8 |
| Base Frequency (P) | 4.05 GHz | 3.2 GHz |
| E-Cores | 4 | 2 |
| E-Threads | 4 | 2 |
| Base Frequency (E) | 2.75 GHz | 2.1 GHz |
| Total Cores | 8 | 10 |
| Total Threads | 8 | 10 |
| Multiplier | 40x | - |
| L1 Cache | 192K (per core) | 192K (per core) |
| L2 Cache | 16MB (shared) | 24MB (shared) |
| Unlocked Multiplier | No | No |
| Transistors | 25 billions | 33.7 billions |
| Fabrication Process | 3 nm | 5 nm |
| TDP (PL1) | 20 W | 30 W |
| Socket | Apple M-Socket | Apple M-Socket |
| Peak Temperature | 100°C | - |
| Integrated Graphics | Apple M3 GPU | Apple M1 Pro GPU (16-core) |
| GPU Base Clock | 500 MHz | 450 MHz |
| GPU Boost Clock | 1600 MHz | 1296 MHz |
| Shading Units | 1280 | 2048 |
| TMUs | 80 | 128 |
| ROPs | 40 | 64 |
| Execution Units | 160 | 256 |
| Memory Types | - LPDDR5-6400 | - LPDDR5-6400 |
| Max. Memory Size | 24 GB | 32 GB |
| Memory Channels | 2 | 4 |
| Max. Memory Bandwidth | 102.4 GB/s | 204.8 GB/s |
| ECC Support | No | No |
| PCI Express Version | 4.0 | - |