Weekend, Bloomberg’s gurman brand dug into the specs of a Mac Mini being tested with the new generation of Apple Silicon, and today is reporting that in the high-end 16-inch MacBook Pro, at least one version of the M3 Max chip seen in tests contains 16 CPU cores and 40 GPU cores, as well as up to 48GB of memory.
The widespread rumors about Apple’s hardware upgrade cycle are a sign that summer is ending and we’re moving into fall, and now that Apple has delivered on its promise of a new Mac Pro, even if it’s less exciting than many think. expected, the M3 update cycle appears ready to begin. The new MacBooks (Pro and Air), as well as the Mac Mini and iMac desktops, will launch over the next year starting in October, and Gurman notes that it’s “likely” that the upgrade to the 14 and 16 MacBook Pro inches is released in 2024 .
More specifically, according to the report, test logs it has seen from a third-party app developer point to a split in CPU cores with 12 high-performance cores (four more than the current M2 Max in laptops). and four efficiency cores (same numbers as the M2 Max), which could boost processing power for things like video editing or Excel extreme sports while maintaining similar battery life to previous models.
