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>Rendering speeds are now up to 2.5x faster than on the M1 family of chips.1 The CPU performance cores and efficiency cores are 30 percent and 50 percent faster than those in M1, respectively, and the Neural Engine is 60 percent faster than the Neural Engine in the M1 family of chips.

WTH, was Apple sandbagging on the M1?

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5nm vs 3nm and three years of progress. Intel's e-cores have been seeing more generation over generation uplift compared to their p-cores so nothing about this strikes me as anything unexpected.

When the m1 came out details about the m3 were well known and that this was going to be a pretty big generation for performance improvements. I think the surprising thing was that m2 got pretty close to m3 in situations which were not as thermally constrained.

thx, good info.

These are the new 3nm chips from TSMC, right?

They didn't say, but since their A17 is 3nm this is almost guaranteed to be 3nm. The 3nm process is the big improvement, the M1 and M2 were TSMC 5nm and 4nm which was basically the same thing.

The performance improvements here is roughly what you would expect if you knew the specs of TSMC 3nm chips.

They DID say it, right at the beginning. All the M3 chips are 3nm.

The A17 Pro benchmarks are extremely disappointing, so I don't think 3nm is actually doing much.

Significantly faster absolute single core CPU performance than a 12900K is pretty good and not disappointing at all. I find the improvements in A17 Pro substantial.

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