Apple M4 (8-Core) specifications and performance

Apple M4 (8-Core) is a 8 cores and 8 threads CPU processor produced by Apple. Apple M4 (8-Core) was released on 2024-10-29, 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 (8-core).

Basic Information

Vendor / Supplier Apple
Short name apple m4 8 core
Release date 2024-10-29
CPU code name Apple M4
Fabrication process 3nm (nanometer)
Instruction set architecture ARMv9
Market Laptop
Integrated Graphics (iGPU) Apple M4 GPU (8-core)

CPU core specifications

Total number of cores 8 cores
Total number of threads 8 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 4 cores
Number of energy-efficient core threads 4 threads
Energy efficiency core basic frequency / main frequency 2.6GHz
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 32GB
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 20W
Maximum Turbo Power Consumption / TDP PL2
Maximum temperature 100°C
PCIe interface
PCIe lane count

Integrated Graphics specifications

Integrated Graphics (iGPU) Apple M4 GPU (8-core)
Base frequency 500MHz
Maximum acceleration frequency 1800MHz
Number of execution units 128
Stream Processors / Shading Units 1024
Texture Units / TMUs 64
Raster Operations Units / ROPs 32
Total Graphics Power / TGP 15W
FP32 computing performance
3.7TFLOPS

Cinebench R23 performance test

Single core performance score
2091
Multi-core performance score
11228

PassMark performance test

Single core performance score
Multi-core performance score
Integer math
Floating point math
Find prime numbers
Random string sorting
Data encryption
Data compression
Physics simulation
Extended instruction test

GeekBench v6 performance test

Single core performance
3671
Multi-core performance
13670
File compression
clang compilation
HTML5 browsing
PDF rendering
Text processing
Background blur
Photo processing
Ray tracing