Apple's M3 Max ship just leaked and it's gonna be better than any of us ever
imagined myself included and trust me I had some High Hopes And it looks like
apple is going to exceed them Mark German just leaked a brand new discovery
from a third-party Mac app developer within test logs destined for the new
high-end 14 and 16-inch MacBook Pros and the most shocking part from that leak is
the actual core counts with the M3 Max coming with an unprecedented 16 CPU
cores a huge upgrade from the current 12 core M2 Max with 33 percent more CPU
cores and in a minute I'm gonna give you guys some performance estimates that are
going to blow your mind with some calculations that I'm gonna run to
provide you guys with a ton of value but first I've got to get into the craziest
part of it all I've been digging through some of Mark German's old chip leaks and
I've just figured out that apple is actually planning a secret upgrade
exclusively for the M3 Max chip one that Mac fans have been asking for ever since
the release of Apple silicon I believe that for the first time ever Apple will
finally be giving the M3 Max more CPU performance than the M3 Pro with 16 CPU
cores instead of 14 and this is a huge deal because for both the M1 Max and M2
Max chips the CPU performance has been literally identical to the M1 Pro and M2
Pro chips and this has obviously been very annoying to Mac buyers who don't
really care that much about GPU performance making the max chip useless
to them and the big problem is that some of those users who need CPU power also
need more RAM but apple is forcing them to upgrade to the Mac ship with double
the GPU cores just to get that extra Ram with no benefit at all to the actual CPU
performance but now users who do programming music production photo
editing and much more will be salivating over the M3 Max because that chip will
finally get more CPU performance over the regular M3 Pro now if you don't
believe me let me show you my train of research and how I figured this out a
couple of months back in May Mark German leaked the core count of the M3 Pro chip
with a 12 core CPU and an 18 core GPU which all seemed pretty normal because
we know that the M3 family of chips is all about tsmc's brand new three
nanometer chip technology that's going to be much more efficient and have
better performance per watt but then when I saw the latest M3 Max ship leak
from German showing off a massive 16 CPU cores my initial impression was that the
previous 12 core M3 Pro chip leak was simply wrong seeing as there is a huge
four core discrepancy between them but then I noticed this the M3 Pro chip that
was found in developer log tests had 18 GPU cores which is actually less than
the current unbend M2 Pro which has 19 GPU cores so why would Apple downgrade
from 19 to 18 on the new M3 Pro well it's because the M3 Pro chip that Mark
German found was actually the bend chip model destined for the base 14-inch
MacBook Pro because if you look at the current base model it does also have a
bin chip which means that some of the cores are disabled with only 10 CPU
cores versus 12 and 16 GPU cores compared to the full 19 that you get on
the upgraded M2 Pro if you pay more so this this essentially means that Apple
actually has another unbinned version of the M3 Pro with likely 20 GPU cores and
likely 14 CPU cores that you can upgrade to with 10 performance cores and four
efficiency cores but guess what the M3 Max chip has that you can't get on the
M3 Pro an extra two performance cores to bring it up to 16 CPU course total that
Mark German just leaked which will be packing a record 12 performance cores
and four efficiency cores so finally the M3 Max will be getting a CPU performance
upgrade over the M3 Pro which is something that I thought Apple would do
from the very beginning because it just makes sense to make the M3 Max better in
terms of both CPU and GPU workloads and because of that I believe the M3 Max
chips are gonna sell like hot cakes now becoming much more desirable to
everybody who needs more CPU power and it's going to be an absolute genius
secret surprise when Apple reveals these chips sometime next year and by the way
about the release date they're likely going to come sooner than we all
expected because we just got a report from the information saying that tsmc's
three nanometer chip yields have greatly improved from about 55 percent which was
absolutely terrible and that caused the worries about the delays up to around 70
to 80 percent yield right now which basically tells us that we should expect
the M3 chip this fall and if we do get the M3 this fall that means the M3 Pro
and Max should be coming next year either in the spring or summer at the
latest but now with all that said let's get into the fun part calculating and
estimating the performance of the Behemoth 16 core M3 Max chip now what
we're going to base this on is a leaked M3 chip Benchmark from Tech Reeve on
Twitter showing the geekbench 5 scores as 2500 for single core and 11
000 for multi-core this basically represents a 29.2 boost in single core
compared to the M2 Chip which honestly seems too good to be true because the M2
Chip was only around 11.5 faster than the M1 in terms of single girl
performance but of course we are expecting the new three nanometer tip
technology to be a huge upgrade but then Tech Reeve came out and said that the
three nanometer process isn't going to be as good as he initially expected so
the 29 boost is probably unrealistic so because of that let's just settle on a
more plausible 20 boost in terms of single core performance for the new M3
chip this means that we should end up with around 2 thousand three hundred and
twenty points in geekbench 5 single core and from that we can actually measure
the performance of just the efficiency cores Alone by taking the single core
score and multiplying it by four total performance cores within the M3 to give
us 9283 points from P cores alone and then
if we take the leaked 11 000 multi-core score which I think is actually accurate
and minus out the performance core performance we're left with around a
thousand seven hundred and sixteen point eight points from the four efficiency
cores or basically 429.2 from each E chord so now let's use
that estimated score information to calculate the performance of the M3 Max
chip first of all one thing we need to note is that the M3 Max ships single
core performance is likely going to be a bit higher than the regular M3 chip
because just by looking at the current M2 Max its single core performance is
6.88 higher than the M2 Chip so let's be a bit more conservative and apply a five
percent boost to the single core score of the M3 Max compared to the M3 giving
us an estimated score of 2436.84 single core performance and now
with that said let's move on to the multi-core calculations in the past with
the M1 and M2 family it chips I observed that as you added more performance cores
like with the bend Pro and Max chips that had six and eight performance cores
there was actually inefficiency loss in terms of the final multi-core
performance score specifically a 9.5 loss for the binned M1 Pro and a 14 loss
for the M1 Max and seeing as the M3 Max chip will have 12 performance cores we
can expect an even bigger efficiency loss so let's just guess around a 20
loss for 12 performance course so now what I'm going to do is take the single
core score of 2436 and take away 20 to give us a score
of around 1949 per each performance core then we
can multiply that number by a total of 12 performance cores to end up with a
massive 23 393 points from the performance cores
alone and since we know there's going to be four efficiency cores in the M3 Max
we can add back in the same 1716.8 score from the M3s for efficiency
cores to give us a grand total of 25 110 multi-core score for the M3 Max chip
in geekbench 5. that would essentially make the new M3 Max almost as fast as
the current M2 Ultra chip which scores around 28 000 points being only 11.5
percent faster than the estimated multi-core performance of the M3 Max
which is absolutely insane and comparing the M3 Max to the previous M2 Max we're
looking at a massive 64.8 percent faster which is crazy but
it makes sense because of the new three nanometer technology and the extra four
performance course and now Translating that estimated performance over to
geekbench 6 is quite difficult because it uses a new more realistic testing
model but here are my own personal estimates I'm thinking the M3 Max should
score around 3278 points and geekbench sixes single
core and a massive twenty thousand twenty four points in multi-core what
which is actually right behind the current M2 Ultra and it's crazy to think
that you're going to get that much performance in a MacBook Pro chassis
without even having to get the huge Mac Studio it's just going to be crazy so
with all that said hopefully you'll enjoy this video and my performance
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