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Apple M3
Apple Laptop CPU

Apple M3

67B
Cores8
Threads8
TDP20 W
SocketApple M-Socket
Process3 nm
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Benchmarks

Perf.61
iGPU74
Energy84
Cinebench 2024 Single-Core140
Cinebench 2024 Multi-Core712
TDP20 W
Cinebench 2024 (Single)140
Cinebench 2024 (Multi)712
Geekbench 6 (Single-Core)3009
Geekbench 6 (Multi-Core)11,815
Passmark CPU (Single-Core)4707
Passmark CPU (Multi-Core)19,065
Blender CPU160.35
iGPU FLOPS3.5 TFLOPS

Full specifications

Cinebench

Cinebench 2026 (Multi)
2341

GeekBench v6

File compression
1260 MB/sec
Clang compilation
94.7 Klines/sec
HTML 5 Browser
264.5 pages/sec
PDF Renderer
313.9 Mpixels/sec
Text processing
297 pages/sec
Background blur
50.2 images/sec
Photo processing
114.8 images/sec
Ray tracing
12.9 Mpixels/sec

PassMark

Integer math
42.6 GOps/sec
Floating point math
48.3 GOps/sec
Find prime numbers
231M Primes/sec
Random string sorting
27.3M Strings/sec
Data encryption
11.5 GBytes/sec
Data compression
225 MBytes/sec
Physics
1867 Frames/sec
Extended instructions
10B Matrices/sec

Performance Per Watt

Cinebench 2024 / Watt
35.6 PPW
Geekbench 6 Multi / Watt
590.8 PPW
Passmark CPU Mark / Watt
953.3 PPW
Blender / Watt
8.02 PPW

General

Vendor
Apple
Released
October 30, 2023
Type
Laptop
Instruction Set
ARMv8
Codename
Apple M3
Integrated GPU
Apple M3 GPU
Successor
- Apple M5 (10-Core)

CPU

P-Cores
4
P-Threads
4
Base Frequency (P)
4.05 GHz
E-Cores
4
E-Threads
4
Base Frequency (E)
2.75 GHz
Total Cores
8
Total Threads
8
Multiplier
40x
L1 Cache
192K (per core)
L2 Cache
16MB (shared)
Unlocked Multiplier
No

Package

Transistors
25 billions
Fabrication Process
3 nm
TDP (PL1)
20 W
Socket
Apple M-Socket
Peak Temperature
100°C

iGPU

Integrated Graphics
Apple M3 GPU
GPU Base Clock
500 MHz
GPU Boost Clock
1380 MHz
Shading Units
1280
TMUs
80
ROPs
40
Execution Units
160
TGP
15 W

Memory Support

Memory Types
- LPDDR5-6400
Max. Memory Size
24 GB
Memory Channels
8
Max. Memory Bandwidth
102.4 GB/s
ECC Support
No

Misc

PCI Express Version
4.0

Specifications compiled from NanoReview. Last updated 2026-09-29.

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