Apple finally announced the new family of M3 chips at the "Scary Fast" event on Halloween night. Following the unveiling of the Snapdragon X Elite, a direct competitor to Apple's M-series silicon, Apple has been quick to respond to the market. But is the Apple M3 a breakthrough chipset and does it provide a meaningful upgrade over the Apple M2?
M3 vs M2 MacBook | reason to upgrade
In this article, we have compared Apple M3 vs M2 in terms of CPU, GPU, memory bandwidth, neural engine and more. So let's not waste time and check out the performance difference between Apple M3 and Apple M2.
Starting with the CPU first, the Apple M3 has seen architectural improvements this year and is built on TSMC's 3nm process node, just like the Apple A17 Pro. As a result, the base Apple M3 chipset packs around 25 billion transistors, the M3 Pro has 37 billion transistors, and the M3 Max includes 92 billion transistors.
Additionally, Apple has included 8 CPU cores on the base M3 chip, 11 or 12 CPU cores on the M3 Pro, and the M3 Max has an option of up to 14 or 16 CPU cores.
