Last week at its media event, Apple made the unconventional move of releasing its newest CPU, the M4, within its next-generation iPad Pro tablet, which is currently available for pre-order and will hit the shelves on Wednesday, May 15.
Benchmarks for the new M4 iPad Pro units have surfaced over on Geekbench, and offer a clear picture of how much faster Apple’s second-generation 3-nanometer chips are compared to the M3, M2, and other prior-generation Apple silicon chips.
The 10-core variant of the M4 chip earned an average single-core score of 3,695 and an average multi-core score of 14,550 across 10 benchmarks. When it comes to single-core performance, the M4 is faster than the M3 Max MacBook Pro, and it’s comparable to the M2 Max in multi-core performance.
The single-core and multicore scores of the chips, in all CPU/GPU variants, is as follows:
- M4 – 3,695/14,550
- A17 Pro – 2,908/7,234
- M2 – 2,540/9,360
- M2 Pro – 2,651/14,295
- M2 Max – 2,802/14,800
- M1 – 2,272/8,208
- M3 – 3,087/11,702
- M3 Pro – 3,112/15,286
- M3 Max – 3,128/20,957
The new M4 chip tested 46 percent faster than the M2 in terms of single-core performance as well as 55 percent faster in multi-core performance. While Apple never used the M3 chip in an iPad, the M4 tested as 24 percent faster than the M3.
Apple has stated that the M4 delivers up to 1.5x faster CPU performance than the M2 in the prior-generation iPad Pro, which is accurate based on the benchmarks we’ve seen so far.
Finally, Apple has stated that it plans to bring the M4 chip family to its entire product line throughout 2024 and 2025 and that the first M4 Macs are slated for release later this year.
Stay tuned for additional details as they become available.