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by freeAgent 928 days ago
Yeah, the changes they made to the M3 Pro were all about making it a less attractive option for people with CPU-heavy workloads who didn’t need/want the GPU horsepower. Unfortunately, it seems that in order to chase this product stratification goal, they actually made the newest generation chip perform worse than the previous generations.
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wiremonger 927 days ago
IMO the significant differences in how Pro and Max are stratified in M1/M2 vs M3 will probably make a lot more sense when M3 Ultra comes out.
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freeAgent 927 days ago
I think it “makes sense” already. The previous generations of Pro were too tempting and Apple probably feels that hobbling them will push people to spend more on Max chips. I also bet the new Pro chips are less costly (node issues aside) since they have many fewer P cores. It’s just sad that the new M3 Pro is a sidegrade at best. I’m hoping M4 shows an actual performance increase for Pro chips now that they’re (hopefully) done cutting the P cores.
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