Apple M4 powered MacBook Air makes Geekbench debut

Just a day after being shown off by a somewhat underwhelming press release, the new Apple M4 powered MacBook Air has made its Geekbench debut. It shows off its shiny new chip and tells us what kind of performance one can expect from it. Unsurprisingly, it isn't too far off its Pro counterpart.

The MacBook Air (Mac16,13) scores 3,680 and 14,924 points in Geekbench 6.4's single and multicore tests. That's well within the average scores in our benchmark database (3,748 and 15,100), indicating there won't be much of a performance loss across the Pro and Air SKUs, at least in workloads that don't involve sustained loads.

In Geekbench's Metal test, the M4 MacBook Air scores 54,864 points, which is noticeably lower than our average of 57,948. This could be due to fewer GPU cores on the entry-level 13-inch MacBook Air variant. But, we don't know for sure Geekbench doesn't reveal its GPU core count. However, this is almost certainly a base variant because it packs 16 GB of RAM.