Apple's M3 Chip Upgrades GPU, Focuses on Gaming Performance

Apple has unveiled its new M3 processors and all three chips include a significant improvement to the GPU side. Unquestionably, the M3, M3 Pro, and M3 Max will offer a faster CPU performance, however, GPU-focused advancements improve graphics capabilities to enhance professional and gaming experience.

[OpenGL]

While I don't think this will turn Macs into cost effective gaming machines, the improvements with the M3 family are significant and will help a lot.

[jaykakade]

Yep. Macs still are out of budget tbh.

[ifinitygamer]

Yes and no - if you need to go laptop, $2K for a pretty killer portable machine with battery life that isn't two hours and fans that don't run just for opening a Chrome tab is pretty reasonable.

[MrGameAndWatch]

The worst part is that apple doesn't upgrade all macs. You can't get a m3 mini or a m3 air. Even worse, m2 air were released few months ago..

[RupeeHoarder]

M2 13" Air came out over a year ago.....the 15" version recently came out though.

[Valkyrye]

focused so much on gaming that the macbook screen is still horrible for gaming but yeah very focused

[ChasterMies]

Why do you think the MacBook screen horrible for gaming? (I think it looks amazing.)

[ifinitygamer]

The screen on the MacBook Pros is widely regarded (both objectively and subjectively so) as one of the best laptop screens in the industry. It might not do more than 120Hz, but everything else is tops. a 3.5K display on the 16-inch model is ridiculous at that screen size, I'd be willing to bet no one can tell the difference between that and a 4K display on a screen that size.

[RupeeHoarder]

MacBook Pro's have some of the best laptop displays you can get.......

[ChasterMies]

Graphics cards have become ridiculously large and expensive beasts. Very excited to see real world tests from Apple’s system on a chip. Imagine if Apple made a for real VR headset for gaming.