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Surprised that the GPU core count is staying the same on the base M3 with all the gaming talk and only seeing limited increases on the Pro and Max.
My assumption is each core with ray tracing consumes more power compared the cores without ray tracing. So their thermal budget likely took a small hit just adding the ray tracing cores to the M3. Meaning they could only bump up the GPU core count by a small amount.