This breakthrough GPU architecture enables all of these enhancements and features while maintaining Apple silicon’s legendary power efficiency. Additionally, the new GPU brings hardware-accelerated mesh shading to the Mac, delivering greater capability and efficiency to geometry processing, and enabling more visually complex scenes in games and graphics-intensive apps. Game developers can use ray tracing for more accurate shadows and reflections, creating deeply immersive environments. This, along with the new graphics architecture, allows pro apps to deliver up to 2.5x the speed of the M1 family of chips. Ray tracing models the properties of light as it interacts with a scene, allowing apps to create extremely realistic and physically accurate images. With the M3 family of chips, hardware-accelerated ray tracing comes to the Mac for the first time.
