At yesterday’s presentation, apple stated that the new MacBook Air with chip M3 present a speed increase of up to 60% more than models with M1 chipand of 13 times compared to processor-based ones Intel, but how do they fare compared to those with M2 chips?
Luckily, the first ones have already appeared online benchmarks, which allow us to quantify Apple’s claims and get an idea of the generational leap, but first let’s remember the specifications of the laptops (if you are looking for a new MacBook, take a look at our selection of the best on the market, where you will find several truly unmissable).
The new MacBook Airs with chips M3 they feature an 8-core CPU and up to 10-core GPU, with support for up to 24GB of unified memory and a new 16-core Neural Engine.
The benchmarks: an increase of 20% in single-core and 18% in multi-core
A MacBook Air identified as Mac15,13 (which refers to a 15-inch MacBook Air), equipped with the M3 chip and 16 GB of unified memory, achieved a Geekbench 6 single-core score of 3,157 and a multi-core score of 12,020.
But how does it compare to a MacBook Air 15-inch with M2 chip? The previous model with the same amount of unified memory achieved a single-core score of 2,610 and a multi-core score of 10,120which means that the M3 chip allows a gain of around 20% in single-core and 18% in multi-core.
And compared to MacBook with M1? In this case we cannot compare it with the 15-inch model, but with a single-core score of 1753 and in multi-core of 7747we can see that Apple’s claims are not exaggerated.
In single-core there is in fact a gain of 55.5%, while in multi-core it becomes 64.5%. Not bad. We remind you that the new MacBook Pro with M3 chip can be ordered right now at a starting price of 1,349 euros (13-inch model with 8-core CPU and 8-core GPU), while the model with M2 chip remained in the catalog (13-inch only) with a starting price of 1,249 euros.
