Apple M3 Max specifications and performance
Apple M3 Max is a 16 cores and 16 threads CPU processor produced by Apple. Apple M3 Max was released on 2023-10-30, the fabrication process is 3nm (nanometer), the CPU codename is Apple M3, the instruction set architecture is ARMv8, and the CPU's integrated graphics (iGPU) is Apple M3 Max GPU (38-core).
| Vendor / Supplier | Apple |
|---|---|
| Short name | apple m3 max |
| Release date | 2023-10-30 |
| CPU code name | Apple M3 |
| Fabrication process | 3nm (nanometer) |
| Instruction set architecture | ARMv8 |
| Market | Laptop |
| Integrated Graphics (iGPU) | Apple M3 Max GPU (38-core) |
| Total number of cores | 16 cores |
|---|---|
| Total number of threads | 16 threads |
| Number of performance cores | 12 cores |
| Number of performance core threads | 12 threads |
| Performance core base frequency / main frequency | 4.1GHz |
| Performance core maximum turbo frequency | |
| Number of energy efficiency cores | 4 cores |
| Number of energy-efficient core threads | 4 threads |
| Energy efficiency core basic frequency / main frequency | 2.8GHz |
| Energy efficiency core maximum turbo frequency |
| Bus frequency | |
|---|---|
| L1 Cache | 192 KB |
| L2 Cache | 32 MB |
| L3 Cache | |
| Unlock multiplier | No |
| Maximum supported memory | 128GB |
|---|---|
| Memory frequency support |
|
| Maximum number of memory channels | 8 |
| Maximum memory bandwidth | 409.6GB/s |
| ECC support | No |
| CPU Socket | Apple M-Socket |
|---|---|
| Default thermal design power / TDP PL1 | 40W |
| Maximum Turbo Power Consumption / TDP PL2 | |
| Maximum temperature | 100°C |
| PCIe interface | PCIe 4.0 |
| PCIe lane count |
| Integrated Graphics (iGPU) | Apple M3 Max GPU (38-core) |
|---|---|
| Base frequency | 500MHz |
| Maximum acceleration frequency | 1600MHz |
| Number of execution units | 640 |
| Stream Processors / Shading Units | 5120 |
| Texture Units / TMUs | 320 |
| Raster Operations Units / ROPs | 160 |
| Total Graphics Power / TGP | |
| FP32 computing performance |
16.4TFLOPS
|
| Single core performance score |
1933
|
|---|---|
| Multi-core performance score |
23802
|
| Single core performance score |
4787
|
|---|---|
| Multi-core performance score |
40653
|
| Integer math | 92 GOps/sec |
| Floating point math | 132 GOps/sec |
| Find prime numbers | 577 Million Primes/sec (Millions find prime numbers per second) |
| Random string sorting | 61.9 Million Strings/sec (Millions random string sorting per second) |
| Data encryption | 25 GBytes/sec (Gigabits per second) |
| Data compression | 532.4 MBytes/sec (megabits per second) |
| Physics simulation | 4240 Frames/sec (FPS) |
| Extended instruction test | 21.8 Billion Matrices/sec (Billions matrix operations per second) |
| Single core performance |
3227
|
|---|---|
| Multi-core performance |
21167
|
| File compression | 2190 MB/sec (megabits per second) |
| clang compilation | 198.5 Klines/sec (thousands lines per second) |
| HTML5 browsing | 557.3 pages/sec (pages per second) |
| PDF rendering | 648.9 Mpixels/sec (megapixels per second) |
| Text processing | 309.1 pages/sec (pages per second) |
| Background blur | 68.9 images/sec (images per second) |
| Photo processing | 183.5 images/sec (images per second) |
| Ray tracing | 30.6 Mpixels/sec (megapixels per second) |