The first Geekbench results for Apple’s new M3 chip surfaced earlier today in the Geekbench 6 database, giving us a good idea of what kind of real-world performance we can expect from Apple’s base M3 chip.
The M3 chip shows single-core and multi-core scores of around 3,000 and 11,700, respectively, compared with the standard M2 chip, which has posted single-core and multi-core scores of around 2,600 and 9,700, respectively. Those numbers back up Apple’s claims that the M3 chip is up to 20% faster than the M2 chip.
Geekbench 6 multi-core scores for the M3 are as follows:
- M3 chip: 11,700 (+20% vs. M2 chip)
- M2 chip: 9,700 (+17% vs. M1 chip)
- M1 chip: 8,315
The results have a “Mac15,3” identifier, which Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman has previously stated was for a laptop with the same display resolution as a 14-inch MacBook Pro.
The standard M3 chip boasts an 8-core CPU and up to a 10-core GPU, supporting up to 24GB of unified memory. The chip’s improved GPU architecture offers support for hardware-accelerated ray tracing and mesh shading. It also has a 16-core AI Neural Engine.
So far, we haven’t seen any results for new Macs powered by Apple’s higher-end M3 Pro and M3 Max chips, which will power new 14-inch and 16-inch MacBook Pro models.
