Apple continues to ramp up testing of recent M3 Macs as we method an anticipated launch someday in October. In line with a brand new report from Bloomberg, Apple has just lately began testing a brand new Mac with a mannequin identifier “Mac15,12” with an M3 chip – probably a brand new model of the Mac mini.
The report comes from Mark Gurman within the final version of his Energy On publication for Bloomberg. In line with Gurman’s sources, the M3-powered Mac in testing packs an 8-core CPU alongside a 10-GPU and 24GB of RAM. The 8-core CPU consists of 4 effectivity cores and 4 high-performance cores.
This configuration strains up with what’s at the moment obtainable within the M2 model of the Mac mini, simply with the brand new M3 chip as a substitute. The model being examined by Apple is probably going the bottom mannequin however upgraded with 24GB of RAM slightly than the beginning quantity of 8GB. “Given the M3 chip’s specs on this specific Mac, I consider it most likely represents a next-generation Mac mini,” Gurman says.
The report does level out that whereas the bottom M3 core counts are the identical as the bottom M2 core counts, the M3 Professional seems to supply a slight enhance. In line with the report, the bottom M3 Professional chip presents 12 CPU cores and 18 GPU cores, up from the M2 Professional’s 10-core CPU and 16-core GPU.
In whole, there have been six totally different variations of M3-powered Macs which have appeared in third-party developer logs obtained by Bloomberg:
- M3 13-inch MacBook Air (codenamed Mac 15,1 and J513/J613)
- M3 15-inch MacBook Air (codenamed Mac 15,2 and J515/J615)
- M3 13-inch MacBook Professional (codenamed Mac 15,3 and J504)
- M3 iMac (codenamed Mac 15,4, Mac 15,5, J433 and J434)
- M3 Professional and M3 Max 14-inch and 16-inch MacBook Professionals (codenamed Mac 15,7, Mac 15,8, J514 and J516)
- Attainable M3 Mac mini (codenamed Mac 15,12)
The M3 chip is predicted to be manufactured utilizing a brand new 3nm fabrication course of, which reduces the quantity of distance between transistors on the chip. The smaller the gap, the higher the efficiency and effectivity.
Bloomberg has beforehand reported that the primary M3-powered Macs are scheduled for an announcement in October. The preliminary lineup will reportedly embrace the 13-inch MacBook Professional, the 24-inch iMac, and the 13-inch MacBook Air. Whether or not or not the bottom mannequin M3 Mac mini additionally debuts round this time stays to be seen.
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