Early Apple M4 Geekbench Scores Show Unprecedented Performance Gains
May. 9, 2024Apple introduced the M4 chipset just recently with the OLED iPad Pro, and said the new chip is “outrageously powerful“. And that seems to be true. Early Geekbench scores ofApple M4has just surfaced and it seems Apple has really crushed the competition. In theGeekbenchsingle-core test, the Apple M4 scored a massive 3,810 points, breaking all records.
It must be noted that Apple moved to TSMC’s 2nd-gen 3nm process node (N3E) with the M4 family. Apple M3 was developed on TSMC’s 1st-gen 3nm process node (N3B) which had a low yield, as is the case with a new process node. However, the N3E process node has drastically improved the yield, enhancing the performance while drawing less power.
With this score, the base Apple M4 beats the M3 Pro (11-core CPU) handily. And with respect to theSnapdragon X Elite, the M4 chipset is 37% faster than the X Elite in single-core performance. In multi-core performance, the 10-core M4 performs better than the 12-core X Elite despite Apple packing half of the performance cores (4P vs 8P).
Overall, the Apple M4 has become the fastest and most power-efficient consumer chipset, outranking Qualcomm and x86 players like Intel and AMD with a huge margin. In terms of performance-per-watt, there is nothing that comes close to Apple M4, not even the upcoming Oryon-based PC chipset by Qualcomm.
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