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.
Intel Core i9-14900KS is Intel's most powerful chip...
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 negligible. Although Apple boasts artificial intelligence (AI) acceleration, the new chip is only about 23% faster. .
