The MacBook Pro 14 made available to us by Apple is powered by the “in-house” Silicon M4 chip composed of 10 processor cores (4 P-cores and 6 E-cores) and 10 GPU cores. 16 GB of unified RAM and 512 GB of storage complete the technical sheet of our test model.
The Apple MacBook Pro M4 obtains a performance index of 92 and is thus on par with the AMD Ryzen AI 9 370HX housed in the Asus TUF Gaming A16.
Compared to the M3 of the MacBook Air, it is 29% more efficient. A real tour de force made possible by the addition of two cores on the M4, in addition to the improvements made to the architecture of the fourth Silicon M iteration.
With this M4 processor, Apple is giving no quarter. On the panel of applications dedicated to our performance index, the Snapdragon X Elite of the Galaxy Book4 Edge 16 Pro is 28% less efficient. In the latter's defense, certain applications are still not natively compatible with the ARM architecture under Windows.
Intel's Core Ultra 7 258V, present in the ZenBook S 14 Oled, does not have this excuse of compatibility, showing 30% less efficient than the MacBook Pro 14 M4 (2024).
On pure performance, the M4 outperforms the M3 on a single core by an average of 20%, while on multi-core applications this gain is increased to 30% on average. Concretely, the rendering time of a video without Metal is reduced by 36%, rendering under Blender by 40%, applying filters under Photoshop by 20% and compressing a 6 GB folder by 7%.
The graphic part is not left out, despite the same number of units (10). Thus, by activating Metal, we observe a synthetic performance gain (Geekbench) of 17%, which translates into a reduction in processing time of 14% under Photoshop, and 18% under Blender and Première.
We couldn't resist the launch of one of the only games available on Steam with a benchmark compatible with M chips: Shadow Of The Tomb Raider. At 1200p with the presets set to Very High and Temporal Aliasing (TAA), this machine delivers an average framerate of 39 images per second (fps), a gain of… 18% compared to the M3.
A word about the 512 GB SSD present in our test model. Its speeds are 3.2 GB/s reading and 2.9 GB/s writing, more or less the same values as on the MacBook Pro M3.
