The results of the Apple M4 in the first tests published on the Geekbench 6 test site confirm that the “promises” of the Cupertino company in terms of increased performance went beyond marketing.

As always when we talk about this type of test, it is worth clarifying that the benchmarks offer a computer capacity estimation perform certain computational tasks and determine its comparative position in comparison with other similar ones. The “raw” results obtained may not always correspond to real life and must be considered approximate. Anyway, in the absence of tests with the real equipment that will be launched this week, the results (for Apple and its potential customers) are promising.

Apple M4 results, the leader on ARM and beyond

Under development under the ARM architecture There is no one who comes close to what Apple achieves with every development he introduces, neither for mobile phones nor for his other devices, such as the Mac line, where the main architecture has changed from x86 to ARM in record time and, as we can see, with great efficiency. We’ve already discussed why Apple succeeds where other manufacturers don’t and it seems the story continues.

Apple M4 SoCs debuted in the iPad Pro 2024 tablets earlier this year. They were designed in-house by Apple and manufactured by TSMC in advanced 3-nanometer processes, and last week it introduced them on its personal computers with the MacBook Pro as the tip and in three versions, base, Pro and Max.

Apple promised “best single-threaded performance in the industry” in their CPU cores and 4000 points What we see in Geekbench confirms this. It also excels in multi-core, with results from the Apple M4 Max 26,675 pointsmaking it Apple’s fastest silicon chip to date.

It must be said that the company has increased the number of cores (up to 16) compared to the M3, and this is where some of the multi-process advances can be derived. And also memory improvement. The M-series chips use a “unified” memory system, meaning that all components on the chip use the same memory. The base M4 has 32GB of available unified memory (up from 24GB in the previous lineup) and runs at a faster 120GB/s.

As for the intermediate version, the M4 Pro, it offers a 45% increase in overall performance compared to the M3 Pro, which is an impressive generational improvement, especially considering that the M3 chips have only been in stores for a little over a year. We insist on testing with Benchmarks they are not decisive for performance evaluationbut what we’ve seen so far offers a compelling approach to the M4’s capabilities. And confirmation that the competition has something to offer…

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