Technical Specifications
Performance
| Total Cores | 16 |
|---|---|
| L2 Cache | 32MB (shared) |
| L1 Cache | 192K (per core) |
| TGP | 60 W |
Graphics
| Integrated GPU | Apple M3 Max GPU (40-core) |
|---|---|
| Execution Units | 640 |
Technical
| Vendor | Apple |
|---|---|
| Released | October 30, 2023 |
Other Specifications
| File compression | 2190 MB/sec |
|---|---|
| Clang compilation | 198.5 Klines/sec |
| HTML 5 Browser | 557.3 pages/sec |
| PDF Renderer | 648.9 Mpixels/sec |
| Text processing | 309.1 pages/sec |
| Background blur | 68.9 images/sec |
| Photo processing | 183.5 images/sec |
| Ray tracing | 30.6 Mpixels/sec |
| Integer math | 91.4 GOps/sec |
| Floating point math | 131.8 GOps/sec |
| Find prime numbers | 575M Primes/sec |
| Random string sorting | 61.9M Strings/sec |
| Data encryption | 24.8 GBytes/sec |
| Data compression | 532.3 MBytes/sec |
| Physics | 4295 Frames/sec |
| Extended instructions | 24.1B Matrices/sec |
| Cinebench 2024 / Watt | 30.1 PPW |
| Geekbench 6 Multi / Watt | 378 PPW |
| Passmark CPU Mark / Watt | 736.7 PPW |
| Blender / Watt | 7.21 PPW |
| Type | Laptop |
| Instruction Set | ARMv8 |
| Codename | Apple M3 |
| P-Cores | 12 |
| P-Threads | 12 |
| Base Frequency (P) | 4.05 GHz |
| E-Cores | 4 |
| E-Threads | 4 |
| Base Frequency (E) | 2.75 GHz |
| Total Threads | 16 |
| Multiplier | 40x |
| Unlocked Multiplier | No |
| Transistors | 92 billions |
| Fabrication Process | 3 nm |
| TDP (PL1) | 56 W |
| Socket | Apple M-Socket |
| Peak Temperature | 100°C |
| Integrated Graphics | Apple M3 Max GPU (40-core) |
| GPU Base Clock | 500 MHz |
| GPU Boost Clock | 1600 MHz |
| Shading Units | 5120 |
| TMUs | 320 |
| ROPs | 160 |
| Memory Types | - LPDDR5-6400 |
| Max. Memory Size | 128 GB |
| Memory Channels | 8 |
| Max. Memory Bandwidth | 409.6 GB/s |
| ECC Support | No |
| PCI Express Version | 4.0 |