Apple Scary Fast event on October 31 will have gaming in the spotlight with new Macs, faster chipsets

Apple, at its highly-anticipated ‘Scary Fast’ launch event on Monday, unveiled new M3 chips, a new MacBook Pro, and a new iMac. An online affair, the show had created a lot of intrigue amongst tech enthusiasts due to its unusual start time, as well as the tagline – it was held on the evening before Halloween.

Apple CEO Tim Cook at 'Scary Fast' event (Image courtesy: Apple)

The M3, M3 Pro, and M3 Max are all made with the thinner 3-nanometer wiring, allowing for a better performance and an improved battery life (22 hours). As per Apple, these are the ‘first personal computer chips’ made using the 3-nanometer process.

The chips come with an updated GPU that supports ray tracing, mesh shading, and Dynamic Caching (a feature that optimises the amount of memory these devices use while performing a task). Aditionally, these come with unified memory of up to 128 GB, a 40-core GPU, and a 60-core CPU.