The very first Geekbench 6 benchmark of the MacBook Pro with M3 processor have set off to appear in theGeekbench 6 database . What they show is a central processor whose higher CPU execution is almost only owe to an increase in clock speed over the M2 .
The functioning profit are roughly in line with Apple ’s selling ( which focused primarily on comparisons with the M1 ) , but seem to propose that the CPU core designs alone are not particularly exciting . Here ’s a nimble sum-up of the results .
MacBook Pro with M2
MacBook Pro with M3
The M3 has maximal clock speed 16 per centum mellow than the M2 . The single - core CPU performance score is about 17 percent gamey , and the multi - core performance is about 21 percent higher . Those are standardised gain to the M2 over the M1 , which see a most minor clock swiftness boost ( 3.5GHz compared to 3.2GHz ) .
It would look that the single - core CPU grudge , which is set by one of the high - performance cores , is almost entirely due to the increase in clock speed rather than architectural improvements to the design of the performance core . When all the cores are at work , the efficiency cores , which Apple called out as being 30 percent faster than the M2 ’s , fetch the grievance up to a very modest 5 per centum improvement over the gain in raw clock fastness .
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Of of course , the M3 is more than just a beneficial processor . The full-grown changes , by Apple ’s own admission , is to the GPU which brings young performance and efficiency . And with only 16 months since the introduction of the M2 and less than a year since the M2 Pro and M2 Max , improvement of 15 - 20 percent are perfectly sane . We ’ll have a better picture of real - earth gains from he GPU side when we get our hand on the first M3 Macs .
At least when it comes to processor execution , the M3 owe most of its performance gains to TSMC ’s 3 nm process and the higher clock speed it afford in the same overall might profile .