Apple to Launch M4 Chip-equipped Mac Computers in Early November
TapTechNews October 8th news, Apple plans to launch the first batch of Mac computers equipped with the M4 chip in early November, and now the benchmark test scores of one of the upcoming models have appeared on Geekbench, allowing us to take a glimpse of the performance of the M4 Mac compared to the M4 iPad Pro and the previous-generation M3 Mac.
The test model named Mac16,1 has a 10-core CPU, with a single-core score of 3864 and a multi-core score of 15288. In contrast, the base M4 iPad Pro with a 9-core CPU has a single-core score of 3647 and a multi-core score of 13135. iPad Pro models are equipped with 9-core or 10-core CPUs depending on the storage capacity, and the 10-core model has a multi-core score of approximately 14500 on Geekbench.
If we compare the M4 with the M3 chip used in last year's Mac computers (8-core CPU and 10-core GPU), the single-core performance of the new processor has increased by 26.7%, and the multi-core performance has increased by 30.6%. The single-core score of the M3 iMac is 3048, and the multi-core score is 11708.
Apple said that on the iPad Pro, the M4 is up to 25% faster than the M3, and the M4 performance on the Mac will be the same or better. It should be noted that the actual released machines may have some differences in scores.
TapTechNews noticed that today a new Metal score of the M4 Mac has also been exposed, and its GPU performance is roughly equivalent to that of the M4 iPad Pro chip. The Metal score of the Mac16,1 with 16GB RAM is 57603, while the Metal score of the M4 iPad Pro is 53374. Due to differences in heat dissipation, the M4 Mac may perform slightly better. The Metal score of the M3 chip is 47414, indicating that the M4 GPU performance will increase by about 20% year-on-year.
The M4 chip that appears on Geekbench is the standard M4, which will be used in Mac mini and 14-inch MacBook Pro models. It is expected that there will also be M4 Pro and M4 Max chips for high-end MacBook Pro and Mac mini models, and the benchmark test results of these models have not yet been released.
Apple may hold a small event at the end of October to release the new M4 Mac, and then officially go on sale on November 1st.