I added some more comparisons to try and help answer your question but they're not complete.

The question is how Apple will be able to do this. I think Apple will eventually start 'optimizing' actual CPU and GPU (more so) cores for their intended systems.Īgree. More than likely, that new GPU would've been fine in a desktop system where thermal ceilings can be lifted with active cooling systems. trying to develop a single core for both mobile and desktop applications. *This is the issue that's going to have be addressed at some point in the future.

(Both the A17 and M3 will also use TSMC's N3 process bringing further performance and efficiency enhancements.) So If I had to guess, the M3 is going to skip the A16 and be based on the A17 generation of cores, so we should see a fairly substantial performance increase in the M3 and finally get the ASi based Mac Pro, which will be the first system with M3 generation SoCs with M3 Ultra and M3 Extreme.

The new GPU design for the A16 was supposed to see a huge performance increase (>50%, mainly due to implementing hardware based ray tracing), but it had to be pulled because apparently it wasn't meeting efficiency standards*. I think this is why we haven't seen the new Mac Pro yet. The 2023(?) ASi 'Mac Pro' must either be able to reach the 166,946 GB5 GPU results either with on-chip GPU cores or by a discrete graphics card like the existing Intel Mac Pro, otherwise, why bother to even release it? Two Radeon Pro W6800X Duo with 64GB GDDR6 memory each

2013 mac pro v 2017 mac pro