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Apple M3 Pro Chip Has 25% Less Memory Bandwidth Than M1/M2 Pro (www.macrumors.com)

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[–] FlishFlashman@alien.top 1 points 10 months ago

Apple is increasing differentiation amongst their chips. Previously the Pro and Max different primarily in GPU cores. Now they are also differentiated in CPU cores and memory bandwidth.

I was disappointed to see that the M3 Maxs memory bandwidth is the same, on paper, as the M2 Max, but I'm also mindful of the fact that no one functional unit was able to use all the available memory bandwidth in the first place, so I hope that the M3 will allow higher utilization.

We'll see once people get their hands on them.