Bloomberg: Apple tests M3 SoC for Macs with eight CPU and ten GPU cores

Apple is testing several MacBooks and Mac PCs with its upcoming M3 SoCs. Bloomberg journalist Mark Gurman reports this. According to the insider, Apple is now testing the entry-level model of the chip, which has eight CPU cores and ten GPU cores.

The basic model of the Apple Silicon M3 will therefore have the same number of cores as the current M2, Gurman writes his weekly Power On newsletter. The Mac in question, probably a Mac mini, has the SoC with four more powerful performance cores and four more economical efficiency cores and a GPU with ten cores. The Mac mini has been upgraded with a total of 24GB of memory instead of 8GB.

The M3 Pro would have more cores than its predecessor. According to Gurman, that chip has twelve CPU cores and eighteen GPU cores as standard. The current M2 Pro has ten CPU cores and sixteen GPU cores, although Apple also sells variants with twelve CPU cores and a GPU with nineteen cores. The M3 Max may have fourteen cores and more than forty GPU cores, Gurman speculates, although this has not yet been confirmed.

Apple’s M3 SoC is scheduled for the next fiscal year, which starts in October. Apple may introduce its first Macs with such a SoC that month, Bloomberg reported last month. The chip will be one of the first products produced on TSMC’s 3nm process.

Apple’s current Mac mini with M2 SoC (right). Source: Apple