Apple M4 powered MacBook Pro makes Geekbench debut
Bloomberg's Mark Gurman has stated Apple's M4-powered MacBooks are due to launch next month. Alongside the vanilla M4 that powered the newest iPad Pro models, we could also see the M4 Pro and M4 Max with new MacBook Pro laptops. Now, we get our first glimpse at what appears to be a 16-inch MacBook with the base Apple M4.
In Geekbench 6.2's single and multi-core tests, it scores 3,864 and 15,228. That's only marginally faster than the Apple M4 found in the top-spec iPad Pro, which scored 3,715 and 14,690 points in the same benchmark. Specs-wise, it comes with 10 CPU cores (4P + 6E) with a max clock of 4.41 GHz. This particular variant has 16 GB of RAM.
A separate Geekbench listing shows off the MacBook Pro's 10-core GPU. It scores 38,153 in the OpenCL benchmark. Its last-gen counterpart (Apple M3), on average, scored 30,470, representing a 25% generation-over-generation performance increase. Whether or not this will translate to other application (read: games) remains to be seen.
In conclusion, Apple is still ahead of the pack when it comes to raw single-core performance. That said, Intel Lunar Lake and Snapdragon X Elite are already catching up on the performance/watt front, and it'll be interesting to see what Panther Lake and next-gen Snapdragon X chips have in store.
