Some things I wanted to comment on...
- if that 3227 GB6 run holds up as a normal result for an unloaded M3 machine, both the overall geomean score and nearly all the individual benchmarks show better scaling than the clock speed ratio between M3 and M2.
- Did anyone else notice what might have been Johny Srouji's biggest flex? It wasn't anything technical, it was when he made a point of mentioning that this time, his department was able to deliver three M3 family members to the market at the same time. I think that's pretty significant. The staggered release schedules for the M1 and M2 families left some questions open about how much Apple was going to invest in growing the AS team to support the Mac. Launching all of A17 Pro, M3, M3 Pro, and M3 Max in Q4 2023 says they've grown their organization a lot.
- along those lines, unlike M1 and M2, the M3 Pro mask art isn't just a slightly edited crop of the M3 Max artwork. That was a significant labor / compute time saver for the M1 and M2 families, but this time they eschewed it in favor of tailoring the M3 Pro for lower costs and the M3 Max for being, well, "max".
- if that 3227 GB6 run holds up as a normal result for an unloaded M3 machine, both the overall geomean score and nearly all the individual benchmarks show better scaling than the clock speed ratio between M3 and M2.
- Did anyone else notice what might have been Johny Srouji's biggest flex? It wasn't anything technical, it was when he made a point of mentioning that this time, his department was able to deliver three M3 family members to the market at the same time. I think that's pretty significant. The staggered release schedules for the M1 and M2 families left some questions open about how much Apple was going to invest in growing the AS team to support the Mac. Launching all of A17 Pro, M3, M3 Pro, and M3 Max in Q4 2023 says they've grown their organization a lot.
- along those lines, unlike M1 and M2, the M3 Pro mask art isn't just a slightly edited crop of the M3 Max artwork. That was a significant labor / compute time saver for the M1 and M2 families, but this time they eschewed it in favor of tailoring the M3 Pro for lower costs and the M3 Max for being, well, "max".