Apple recently introduced the M4 chipset with the OLED iPad Pro and said the new chip is "unreasonably powerful." And it seems to be true. Early Geekbench scores of the Apple M4 have just surfaced and it looks like Apple has really crushed the competition. In the single-core Geekbench test, the Apple M4 scored a whopping 3,810 points, breaking all records.
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In the Geekbench multi-core test with 10 CPU cores (4 performance + 6 efficiency cores), the Apple M4 scored 14,541 points. Apple has managed to achieve this monumental score by running the M4 chipset at a mighty 4.4GHz frequency. Don't forget that the Apple M4 runs on a thin iPad Pro (2024) in a fanless form factor. That means its efficiency figure is off the charts.
It must be noted that Apple moved to TSMC's second generation 3nm process node (N3E) with the M4 family. The Apple M3 was developed on TSMC's 1st generation 3nm process node (N3B) which had a low yield, as is the case with a new process node. However, the N3E process node has drastically improved yield, improving performance while drawing less power.
With this score, it handily beats the base Apple M4 M3 Pro (11-core CPU). And with respect to the Snapdragon X Elite, the M4 chipset is 37% faster than the X Elite in single-core performance. In multi-core performance, the 10-core M4 outperforms the 12-core X Elite despite Apple packing half the performance cores (4P vs 8P).
