M4 Pro and M4 Max: the first Geekbench tests raise them to the M2 Ultra ????

The first test results of the M4 Pro chip in the Mac mini are starting to appear and put the small Mac in a very favorable position against the big Mac Studio.

[Mise à jour à 18h45] : Averages for the MacBook Pro 16″ M4 Max have been added.

Apple having distributed the new Macs to the first testers, scores obtained with Geekbench are beginning to fill the basis of the measurement software. There we find the CPU and GPU results of the M4 Pro present in the Mac mini.

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In its most powerful variant it is a chip with 14 cores for the CPU. It is this configuration that Apple seems to have favored in its media loans.

The current Mac that comes closest is the Mac Studio M2 Ultra (24-core CPU), this family not having been upgraded to the Apple M3. Given these first scores, the little Mac mini has strong shoulders. The values for the Mac mini are an average of 11 tests recorded to date at Geekbench.

Single-core test:

Mac mini M4 Pro (14-core CPU): 3,663
MacBook Pro 16″ M4 Max (CPU 16 cœurs) : 4 013
Mac Studio M2 Ultra (24-core CPU): 2,777

Multi-core test:

Mac mini M4 Pro (14-core CPU): 22,094
MacBook Pro 16″ M4 Max (CPU 16 cœurs) : 26 445
Mac Studio M2 Ultra (24-core CPU): 21,351

In these raw tests, the new Mac mini in its high-end version easily wins against the Mac Studio with the same positioning. Financially speaking, the Mac mini with this processor (and 24 GB of RAM, 512 GB of basic SSD) costs €1,879. Opposite, the Mac Studio with the first M2 Ultra (64 GB of RAM and 1 TB of SSD) is sold for €4,799.

This is an incomplete comparison that does not take into account the GPU or the neural engine. But it makes a good first impression for this M4 Pro. Knowing that there is still the M4 Max to discover, absent from the Mac mini but offered on the MacBook Pros.

When we look at the results on the GPU, the Mac Studio very easily takes the crown. The base M2 Ultra has 60 GPU cores, the M4 Pro opposite has 20, at best. The Geekbench GPUs this time go from single to double: a score of around 111,000 for the Mac mini and 221,000 for the Mac Studio…

While waiting for the M4 Max Geekbench to appearwe can compare the results of this same M4 Pro to those of the M3 Max of previous laptops. The old MacBook Pro also presents itself in a better light when you use its GPU. Unsurprisingly his replacement pushes him back.

Single-core test: