Apple M4 specifications and performance

Apple M4 is a 10 cores and 10 threads CPU processor produced by Apple. Apple M4 was released on 2024-05-07, the fabrication process is 3nm (nanometer), the CPU codename is Apple M4, the instruction set architecture is ARMv9, and the CPU's integrated graphics (iGPU) is Apple M4 GPU.

Basic Information

Vendor / Supplier Apple
Short name apple m4
Release date 2024-05-07
CPU code name Apple M4
Fabrication process 3nm (nanometer)
Instruction set architecture ARMv9
Market Laptop
Integrated Graphics (iGPU) Apple M4 GPU

CPU core specifications

Total number of cores 10 cores
Total number of threads 10 threads
Number of performance cores 4 cores
Number of performance core threads 4 threads
Performance core base frequency / main frequency 4.4GHz
Performance core maximum turbo frequency
Number of energy efficiency cores 6 cores
Number of energy-efficient core threads 6 threads
Energy efficiency core basic frequency / main frequency 2.9GHz
Energy efficiency core maximum turbo frequency

CPU cache and frequency

Bus frequency
L1 Cache 192 KB
L2 Cache 16 MB
L3 Cache
Unlock multiplier No

Memory specifications

Maximum supported memory 24GB
Memory frequency support
  • - LPDDR5X-7500MHz
Maximum number of memory channels 4
Maximum memory bandwidth 120GB/s
ECC support No

Package specifications

CPU Socket Apple M-Socket
Default thermal design power / TDP PL1 10W
Maximum Turbo Power Consumption / TDP PL2 20W
Maximum temperature 100°C
PCIe interface PCIe 4.0
PCIe lane count

Integrated Graphics specifications

Integrated Graphics (iGPU) Apple M4 GPU
Base frequency 500MHz
Maximum acceleration frequency 1600MHz
Number of execution units 160
Stream Processors / Shading Units 1280
Texture Units / TMUs 80
Raster Operations Units / ROPs 40
Total Graphics Power / TGP 15W
FP32 computing performance
4.1TFLOPS

Cinebench R23 performance test

Single core performance score
Multi-core performance score

PassMark performance test

Single core performance score
4463
Multi-core performance score
25029
Integer math 72 GOps/sec
Floating point math 51 GOps/sec
Find prime numbers 251 Million Primes/sec (Millions find prime numbers per second)
Random string sorting 35.3 Million Strings/sec (Millions random string sorting per second)
Data encryption 15.4 GBytes/sec (Gigabits per second)
Data compression 274.6 MBytes/sec (megabits per second)
Physics simulation 2684 Frames/sec (FPS)
Extended instruction test 13.8 Billion Matrices/sec (Billions matrix operations per second)

GeekBench v6 performance test

Single core performance
3810
Multi-core performance
14541
File compression 1490 MB/sec (megabits per second)
clang compilation 114.1 Klines/sec (thousands lines per second)
HTML5 browsing 340.7 pages/sec (pages per second)
PDF rendering 385.3 Mpixels/sec (megapixels per second)
Text processing 357.8 pages/sec (pages per second)
Background blur 55.9 images/sec (images per second)
Photo processing 147.6 images/sec (images per second)
Ray tracing 17.4 Mpixels/sec (megapixels per second)