What is the new Apple Silicon M4 chip really worth? On paper, it outperforms all of the other chips offered by Cupertino, except the Pro, Max and Ultra models.
Presented this Tuesday afternoon during the keynote “Let Loose”, Apple’s new flagship SoC, the Apple Silicon M4, will arrive as an absolute first on the new iPad Pros. A first for Cupertino, since since 2020, the company has accustomed us to offering its new Apple Silicon SoCs as a priority on its Macs, iMacs and MacBooks.
This year, Apple has decided to reshuffle the cards, and it is therefore the 11″ and 13″ iPad Pros which will benefit first from the Apple Silicon M4. The figures put forward by the firm to sell its new chip seem impressive. It has second-generation 3nm engraving technology, a 10-core CPU 50% faster than the M2 and a Neural Engine capable of performing 38 billion billion operations per second ( compared to 18 on Apple M3).
Thanks to next-generation burning technology and a significantly improved memory bandwidth of 120GB/s, the M4 chip appears to far outperform any chip ever developed by Apple, except of course certain Pro, Max or Ultra models. During its presentation, we don’t really know why, Apple compared its new SoC to the Silicon M2, which dates from 2022. Perhaps this is to emphasize improvements that are much more impressive than the M3 chip. And yet, the evolution is very marked between the M3 chip and the M4 chip.
A benchmark that reveals the power of the M4
Indeed, a benchmark carried out on Geekbench tends to prove that this new SoC is very impressive. In single-core performance, the M4 chip reaches a score of 3,800 points. This score is 14,500 points in multi-core. For its part, the Silicon M3 SoC obtained 3,100 points and 11,600 points.
- M4: Single-core 3,800 points. Multi-core 14,500 points.
- M3 Max: Single-core 3,100 points. Multi-core 21,000 points.
- M3 Pro: Single-core 3,100 points. Multi-core 18,500 points.
- M3: Single-core 3,100 points. Multi-core 11,600 points.
- M2 Ultra: Single-core 2,600 points. Multi-core 21,200 points.
- M2 Max: Single-core 2,600 points. Multi-core 14,500 points.
- M2 Pro: Single-core 2,600 points. Multi-core 14,500 points.
- M2: Single-core 2,600 points. Multi-core 9,900 points.
- M1 Ultra: Single-core 2,300 points. Multi-core 18,300 points.
- M1 Max: Single-core 2,300 points. Multi-core 12,500 points.
- M1 Pro: Single-core 2,300 points. Multi-core 12,500 points.
- M1: Single-core 2,300 points. Multi-core 8,700 points.
Obviously, the comparison with the M1 chips suggests an improvement in performance going almost double. While the M4 chip does not reach the multi-core performance of the M2 Ultra, M3 Pro and M3 Max, it is as powerful as the M2 Pro and M2 Max chips.
All these figures are just theory. We will of course have to see what this will do in real situations, in programs requiring a lot of power like Photoshop or Final Cut Pro, or even in video games.
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