Technical Specifications
Graphics
| Integrated GPU | Apple M3 GPU |
| Execution Units | 160 |
Technical
| Vendor | Apple |
| Released | October 30, 2023 |
Other Specifications
| File compression | 1260 MB/sec |
| Clang compilation | 94.7 Klines/sec |
| HTML 5 Browser | 264.5 pages/sec |
| PDF Renderer | 313.9 Mpixels/sec |
| Text processing | 297 pages/sec |
| Background blur | 50.2 images/sec |
| Photo processing | 114.8 images/sec |
| Ray tracing | 12.9 Mpixels/sec |
| Integer math | 42.5 GOps/sec |
| Floating point math | 48.5 GOps/sec |
| Find prime numbers | 233M Primes/sec |
| Random string sorting | 27.4M Strings/sec |
| Data encryption | 11.5 GBytes/sec |
| Data compression | 226.5 MBytes/sec |
| Physics | 1857 Frames/sec |
| Extended instructions | 10B Matrices/sec |
| Cinebench 2024 / Watt | 35.6 PPW |
| Geekbench 6 Multi / Watt | 590.8 PPW |
| Passmark CPU Mark / Watt | 956.7 PPW |
| Blender / Watt | 8.02 PPW |
| Type | Laptop |
| Instruction Set | ARMv8 |
| Codename | Apple M3 |
| P-Cores | 4 |
| P-Threads | 4 |
| Base Frequency (P) | 4.05 GHz |
| E-Cores | 4 |
| E-Threads | 4 |
| Base Frequency (E) | 2.75 GHz |
| Total Threads | 8 |
| Multiplier | 40x |
| Unlocked Multiplier | No |
| Transistors | 25 billions |
| Fabrication Process | 3 nm |
| TDP (PL1) | 20 W |
| Socket | Apple M-Socket |
| Peak Temperature | 100°C |
| Integrated Graphics | Apple M3 GPU |
| GPU Base Clock | 500 MHz |
| GPU Boost Clock | 1600 MHz |
| Shading Units | 1280 |
| TMUs | 80 |
| ROPs | 40 |
| Memory Types | - LPDDR5-6400 |
| Max. Memory Size | 24 GB |
| Memory Channels | 2 |
| Max. Memory Bandwidth | 102.4 GB/s |
| ECC Support | No |
| PCI Express Version | 4.0 |