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I've seen online some demonstrations showing that the new M3 chips do not use all of their cores for audio processing. It looks like some of the efficiency cores don't get used.
This seems pretty strange. Do we think OS or software updates are going to address this?
Seems crazy a 3 year old M1 chip outperforms a new M3
MacBook Pro 14″, macOS 12.6
vahakn1 wrote:
I've seen online some demonstrations showing that the new M3 chips do not use all of their cores for audio processing. It looks like some of the efficiency cores don't get used.
Don't believe what you see on the internet.
Do we think OS or software updates are going to address this?
We do not.
Seems crazy a 3 year old M1 chip outperforms a new M3
What's an "M1" chip? And what's a "new M3" chip? Last time I checked, there were 5 different versions of the M1 chip, and 5 different versions of the M3 chip. Apple usually isn't focused on winning any benchmarks. There's always some crazy, liquid-cooled 400-core Intel chip that can win those. Apple is focused more on making a mobile device, with comparable performance while on battery, all on a logic board smaller than the PC's video card.
No app in the world will use ALL of the cores in a CPU. That's not how programming works. Some operations can't be done segmented up like that. So what you're seeing is true, but totally normal for any app on any computer.
M3 cores not being used in Logic Pro processing...
