According to Geekbench's latest single-core rankings, the Apple M4 chip has become the new single-core performance champion, beating the Intel Core i9-14900KS in test scores.
Not long after holding the Let Loose event to launch the new iPad series this week, benchmark scores of iPads equipped with the M4 chip appeared on Geekbench. The results show that the overall scores in most reviews show excellent numbers, in which the single-core score reaches about 3800 points, exceeding previous chips, Intel's Intel Core i9-14900KS and AMD's Ryzen 9 7950X. Capital reached about 3300 points.
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Along with some design improvements, Apple has upgraded directly to the new M4 chip instead of using the M3 chip for the latest iPad Pro line. This M4 chip is combined with a 10-core CPU, 10-core GPU, and a 16-core neural engine capable of reaching 38 TOPS. This System on Chip (SoC) chip is manufactured on the second generation 3nm process and comes with advanced features such as dynamic caching, ray tracing hardware acceleration and AV1 hardware acceleration.
...but was beaten by the M4 on the new iPad Pro.
As for CPU performance, Apple's internal testing shows that the high-end M4 chip has 28 billion transistors, 50% higher performance than the M2 chip. When compared to the Asus Zenbook 14 OLED (UX3405MA) equipped with Intel Core Ultra 7 155H and 32 GB RAM, this device running Apple's M4 chip "delivers equivalent performance but only consumes 1/4 of the power".
Other parts of the benchmark also indicate that the M4 is about 3% more efficient than the M3, but more detailed testing is needed to determine whether this is an improvement on Apple's chip or not.
Key technical specifications of Apple M4.
As for the Apple M4's Geekbench machine learning test scores, the improvement from M2 to M4 is dismissed. Although Apple boasts artificial intelligence (AI) acceleration, the new chip is only about 23% faster. .
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The new iPad Pro has a significantly thinner design with 11-inch and 13-inch screen size options. While the 11-inch version is 5.3 mm thick, the 13-inch version is only 5.1 mm thick. Apple notes that this makes the new iPad Pro the company's thinnest ever. It has an improved thermal design thanks to graphite panels in the main case and copper in the Apple logo.
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The iPad Pro OLED Ultra Retina maximum 1,600 nits. It delivers deeper, more realistic blacks, more detail in shadows and low light, brighter highlights and improved brightness, and is more responsive to moving content.
The M4 chip embedded inside is manufactured using second-generation 3nm technology and features a new rendering engine, as well as hardware-accelerated mesh shading and ray tracing. This chip offers up to 50% faster CPU performance than M2 on the previous iPad Pro, while rendering performance is 4x faster.
The 12 MP camera on the front of the iPad Pro has been moved to the side of the device to improve the video calling experience. The rear camera now supports ProRes and Smart HDR 4 video recording. The product also now has Adaptive TrueTone flash for better document scanning.
