Shortly after the announcement of the new MacBook Air based on the M3 chip, the results of test devices in benchmarks began to appear on the Internet, which showed a significant superiority of the new models over the old ones. In this respect reports Published by GizmoChina.
Thus, in Geekbench 6, the new MacBook Air with the M3 chip scored 3,157 and 12,020 points in single-core and multi-core modes, respectively. For comparison, a MacBook Air with an M2 chip scores 2,600 points in single-core mode and 10,000 points in multi-core mode. Thus, the power increase is 21% and 18% in single-core and multi-core modes, respectively.
The Apple M3 chip, announced in 2023, includes an 8-core processor and a GPU that can go up to 10 cores. Notably, this is the first Apple chip to include hardware-accelerated ray tracing graphics.
The cost of updated MacBook Air models in the USA starts at $ 1099 (about 101 thousand rubles at the exchange rate of March 6, 2024) and deliveries will begin on March 8.
Previously recognizedIt was revealed that Apple will pay millions of dollars to iPhone users.