Apple is testing the M3 Max chips. Apple has begun testing the higher-tier M3 series chips, the ones we should see in future generations of MacBook Pros.
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This was reported by Mark Gurman in the latest issue of his PowerOn newsletter, explaining that the new M3 Max chip offers 16 processing cores and 40 graphics cores. These details would emerge from the logs of a third-party Mac app that a developer told Bloomberg News. The processor in question is the “heart” of future MacBook Pros – codenamed J514 – which we should see next year.
The CPU has 12 high-performance cores for handling intensive tasks such as video editing, and 4 high-efficiency cores for activities that do not require high resources such as web browsing. Compared to the current flagship M2, the new chip boasts 4 more high-performance CPU cores and 2 additional graphics cores. The MacBook Pro that was intercepted by these logs includes 48GB of RAM.
Apple, Gurman still reports, is probably testing multiple variants of the processors, with different numbers of cores, and this that has emerged is just one of many versions being tested in Cupertino.
The processors of the Mx series (M1, M2, etc.) have proved to be fundamental for Apple and with the M3 it is easy to foresee a further increase in performance, as well as intrinsic improvements possible from the 3nm technology and UltraFusion architecture which allows to connect the two chips of the same type doubling the performance. The M3s will be the first chips for desktop machines to take advantage of 3-nanometer technology, with improvements not only in terms of performance but also in terms of battery life, along the lines of what we should see with the A17 processor expected on the upcoming iPhone 15 Pro ( which Apple will present before the end of September).
These mentioned by Gurman are the processors intended for top-of-the-range laptops; according to previously circulated rumors, we should see the first desktop Macs with the M3 chip in October.