A series of Geekbench specs for Apple’s yet-to-be-announced M4 MacBook Air notebooks have surfaced, offering an idea of how much faster the GPU component of Apple’s second-generation 3-nanometer chips is compared to the existing M3 models.
The Geekbench 6 result for a “Mac16,12” was recorded on February 23. The specs for the device include a 10-core chip with 24GB of RAM. The machine is running a special 24C2101 build of macOS Sequoia 15.2 – the same version that Apple accidentally released back in December that originally confirmed the existence of next-generation 13-inch and 15-inch MacBook Air models, which hints that the leak might be legitimate.
The machine in question scores a Metal score of 55,516, wherein scores for the existing 13-inch M4 iPad Pro are in the same ballpark, as expected. For added context, the existing M3 MacBook Air averages a Metal score of around 48-49,000.
Both the MacBook Air and iPad Pro lack fans for thermal management, and there may be little if any difference between the chips’ graphics performance.
Per Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman, Apple is prepping its marketing, sales, and retail teams for a March launch of new 13-inch and 15-inch MacBook Air models. Gurman has previously said the new models will be released “within weeks.” Beyond the new M4 chip, no other significant revisions are expected.
Stay tuned for additional details as they become available.