M4 Pro Chip Benchmark Results Reveal an Extremely Impressive Performance Feat

The first Geekbench 6 benchmark results for the M4 Pro chip surfaced today. Impressively, the results that are available so far show that the highest-end M4 Pro chip is faster than the highest-end M2 Ultra chip in terms of peak multi-core CPU performance.

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Here is a comparison of the results:

  • Mac mini with M4 Pro (14-core CPU): 22,094 multi-core score (average of 11 results)
  • Mac Studio with M2 Ultra (24-core CPU): 21,351 (average of more than 600 results)

Based on these results, the M4 Pro now holds the record of being the fastest Apple silicon chip ever in the Geekbench 6 database. Of course, it will soon be surpassed by the M4 Max chip with a 16-core CPU, but no results are available for that chip as of writing. We will publish a follow-up report with the M4 Max results once they are available.

What this means is that you can now purchase a Mac mini with a 14-core M4 Pro for $1,599 in the U.S. and get similar to faster peak performance than a Mac Studio with the 24-core M2 Ultra, a configuration that starts at $3,999.

As for year-over-year performance improvements, the M4 Pro is up to 45% faster than the highest-end M3 Pro chip in terms of multi-core CPU performance, based on the Geekbench 6 results that are available so far.

Here is a comparison of the results:

  • Mac mini with M4 Pro (14-core CPU): 22,094 multi-core score (average of 11 results)
  • 14-inch MacBook Pro with M3 Pro (12-core CPU): 15,282 (average of more than 4,000 results)

Read our earlier coverage of the M4 Pro announcement to learn more about the chip.

All of Apple's new Macs launch on Friday, November 8.

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Top Rated Comments

UltimateSyn Avatar
21 weeks ago
Impressive performance. Seems like the Mac Studio is an awful purchase until it gets updated with the M4 family.
Score: 44 Votes (Like | Disagree)
Gnattu Avatar
21 weeks ago
A friendly note that Geekbench6 is not designed for big CPUs and the multicore performance scaling drops significantly after a certain core amount due to its design to reflect common consumer tasks, which means it might not reflect the workstation tasks performance that scales well with core count, like compiling a lot of source code using all cores.
Score: 42 Votes (Like | Disagree)
Phonzoxd Avatar
21 weeks ago

It really is a bad time for M chip series. Apple keeps dwarfing the previous generation by huge margin as if the old chip means nothing. M4 Pro faster than M2 Ultra. Baseline M4 faster than M2 Pro, M4 Pro much faster than M3 Pro. I mean come on how do you think people with older M series Macs feel about that?

At this pace, next year baseline M5 chip could be faster than M4 Pro today. I do think some baby steps upgrade like NVidia GPU, or maybe iPhone A series chip feels much better for consumers as you don't feel much gutted when the next gen chip is launched.

Also the iteration update is way too fast, M3 series barely half a year old yet and M4 is already launched (on iPad Pro) and the M3 was getting punched real good. Like whoaaa, really??
Your concern is that they are advancing too quickly? WTH is this?
Score: 31 Votes (Like | Disagree)
haruhiko Avatar
21 weeks ago

It sure isn't fun when you spend $5000highest end Mac Studio to get dwarfed by $1000 M4 Pro chip a year later on a Mac Mini. I do think Apple is way too dwarfing the last gen chip as if spending more for a prosumer Mac means nothing.
I can’t understand this logic. Apple makes big progress = bad, they don’t consider their customers; Apple makes incremental update = bad, they are doomed. Qualcomm will replace them. Etc etc
Score: 28 Votes (Like | Disagree)
vorkosigan1 Avatar
21 weeks ago

Exactly. It is impressive Apple will allow customers to purchase a computer for twice the price with worse performance…
"allow". If only those customers had any free will.....
Score: 26 Votes (Like | Disagree)
AAPLGeek Avatar
21 weeks ago

Because it creates confusion as when should I buy a Mac? Imagine spending $4000 for the most expensive, fully maxxed out dream setup Mac and just a year later Apple can squeeze the same performance on a base line Mac Mini?
And your concern is what? That $4000 "dream setup" is still just as functional as the day before.

Seems like a case of people buying these "dream setups" for a d*ck-measuring contest are pissed that their $4000 investment is bested by a lowly $599 mini.
Score: 23 Votes (Like | Disagree)