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The M4 a huge upgrade by Apple. A mega-revolution.
Ground-breaking performance.
It has a completely new CPU architecture, much wider issue, with a new instruction decoder.
Much improved branch prediction and intructions per clock (IPC) cycle.
IPC is increased by about +15% vs the M3, and together with +10% clock, it delivers +25%
performance on single-core, beating everyone and anything at single-core.
It is even beating top-end desktops AMD Ryzen 9 7950X, 9950X,
and Intel Core i9-14900K at many single-core benchmarks, and web browsing !
All of this while being passively cooled and completely silent on the iPad, in a 5-mm thin body.
Totally ridiculous performance, that is unheard of !
A 15-watt device beating a 300-watt, water-cooled, fastest desktop CPU (Intel's 14900K) !
A18 - 6 cores (2P+4e); 5-6 GPU cores; mem.bandwidth = ? GB/sec; ? billion transistors
M4 - 10 cores (4P+10e); 10 GPU cores; mem.bandwidth = 120 GB/sec; 28 billion transistors
2 result(s) recorded for this family.
Flagship: Apple M4 Max
ST score/GHz: 1,644 · MT score/Watt: 1,129
| Specification | Value |
|---|---|
| Introduced | 2024 |
| Arch Generation | 18 |
| Architecture / Codename | (?) |
| Cores / Threads | 4P+6e (4 Performance Cores + 6 efficiency cores) |
| Technology Node | 3 nm (2nd-gen TSMC N3E) |
| Die Size | 147 mm^2 (estimated) |
| Transistors | 28 billion |
| Frequency | 4400 MHz |
| Instructions | 192 KB + 128 KB /P-core (?) |
| TDP | ~15 Watts |
| Cache L2 | 12 MB /P-cluster (?) |
| Memory Type | LPDDR5X |
| Memory Bandwidth | 120 GB/s; |
| Memory Size Max | 16 GB |