M3 Max MacBook Pro is as fast as M2 Ultra Macs, benchmarks reveal

Apple unveiled the M3 Macs on Monday, which feature one of the expected new chips: M3, M3 Pro, and M3 Max. Apple made a big deal about the performance gains each of the three System-on-Chip (SoC) will deliver over predecessors. We've had to take Apple's word on it, at least until the first benchmarks started showing up online. There's no reason for Apple to lie, of course. But we'd still need confirmations from benchmark tests.

We already saw the first test results for the M3 MacBook Pro, which show the entry-level SoC is around 20% faster than the M2. Since then, the first M3 Max benchmarks have also surfaced. They show the late 2023 MacBook Pros are as powerful as the Mac Pro and Mac Studio running on the M2 Ultra SoC.

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