Over the past two days, the first Geekbench 6 benchmark results have surfaced for Apple's new M4 Pro and M4 Max chips, providing some performance comparisons.
We have shared multi-core CPU performance results for the M4 Pro and for the M4 Max, so check out those posts to see the scores the chips achieved. In summary, the highest-end variants of the M4 Pro and M4 Max are both able to outperform the highest-end M2 Ultra chip in the Mac Studio and Mac Pro, which is impressive. Specifically, the M4 Max is up to 25% faster than the M2 Ultra in terms of peak multi-core CPU performance.
For customers choosing between the M4 Pro and M4 Max, the M4 Max appears to be up to 20% faster than the M4 Pro in terms of peak multi-core CPU performance. The M4 Max is now the fastest Apple silicon chip in the Geekbench 6 database.
As we mentioned in our previous reporting, 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. And if you want up to 25% faster performance than the M2 Ultra, the 16-inch MacBook Pro with the 16-core M4 Max starts at the same $3,999 price as the Mac Studio.
As for graphics performance, GPU-focused Geekbench 6 results show that the M4 Pro is up to 25% faster than the M3 Pro chip, and the M4 Max is up to 40% faster than the M3 Max chip. Those are very respectable year-over-year gains. The highest-end M4 Max with a 40-core GPU has up to 85% as fast graphics as the Mac Studio with the highest-end M2 Ultra chip with a 76-core GPU, despite having 36 fewer GPU cores.
Keep in mind that the M4 Pro's impressive performance gains are partly due to the M3 Pro being a very minor upgrade over the M2 Pro chip last year.
Read our coverage of the M4 Pro and M4 Max announcements to learn more about the chips.
All of the new Macs with M4 series chips launch Friday, November 8.
