M3 Pro Is A Major Disappointment In Geekbench 6’s Multi-Core Test; Only 6 Percent Faster Than M2 Pro, Making It Apple’s Slowest 3nm SoC
The base version of the M3 Pro features fewer performance cores than the M2 Pro, so this difference will naturally have a significant impact on the multi-core result. In the latest Geekbench 6, Apple’s ‘middle of the pack’ SoC can be termed as a highly disappointing release, with the 3nm chipset only managing to obtain a 6 percent lead against its predecessor, the M2 Pro.
Where the M3 Max raised its expectations by a mile, being faster than the 24-core M2 Ultra in Geekbench 6’s multi-core results, the M3 Pro ends up doing the complete opposite. Even the base M3 with its 8-core CPU and 10-core GPU, ends up matching the 10-core CPU version of the M2 Pro, so it is definitely puzzling as to why Apple would intentionally gimp the M3 Pro’s performance. Regardless, the results spotted on Geekbench 6 reveal the specifications of the SoC, with this part sporting six performance and six efficiency cores.
The performance cores are all running at 4.05GHz, which is the clock speed value that is consistent across all Apple’s M3 chipsets, leading to increased single-core results, which the M3 Pro manages to achieve against the 12-core CPU variant of the M2 Pro with a 14 percent lead. Unfortunately, in the multi-core result, the same two Apple Silicon just have a 6 percent performance difference, with the M3 Pro obtaining a score of 15,173, whereas the M2 Pro achieves, on average, 14,229 points.
According to MacRumors, there is only one M3 Pro score available in Geekbench 6’s database, so we have to wait for additional results to be posted to provide an impartial analysis of the silicon’s multi-core performance. For now, we have to say that Apple has disappointed consumers by lowering the number of performance cores on the M3 Pro and
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