Apple is said to be working on a successor to the M2 Ultra chip model, which possesses extremely powerful performance that it announced earlier this year at WWDC 2023. M2 Ultra is currently equipped in the machine. Apple’s most expensive Mac Studio and Mac Pro desktops with an impressive configuration of 24 CPU cores and up to 76 GPU cores.
As revealed by veteran writer Mark Gurman (Bloomberg) who is famous for his highly accurate sharing of Apple products, Apple is testing a new high-end chip with even configuration. more terrible”, with a basic design of 32 CPU cores and 64 GPU cores, but will have up to 80 GPU cores. If the speculations are true, this will most likely be the M3 Pro processor, which is expected to launch in 2024 and is a follow-up to the success of the M2 Ultra.
In addition to us also according to Mark Gurman, Apple’s new M3 chip line, is expected to launch as early as October this year with the first representative being the standard M3 model, manufactured with the advanced 3nm process. This chip will have a configuration of 8 CPU cores and 10 GPU cores, which is expected to be featured on the new MacBook and MacBook Air laptops, along with the next-generation iMac and Mac mini PC.
Thus, M3 will have the same number of cores as M2, but with higher performance thanks to the new 3nm process. According to TSMC’s statement, the smaller chip design will provide a significant leap in performance (about 15%) while consuming less power (about 30%) compared to the current generation.
The M3 Pro and M3 Max chips probably won’t be released until at least the second half of 2024. Gurman said the M3 Pro will feature 12 or 14 CPU cores and up to 32 GPU cores, for full-sized MacBook Pro models. more and Mac Mini. The M3 Max chip is said to have 16 CPU cores and up to 40 GPUs, which will also be an option for the larger MacBook Pro, as well as the Max Studio.