At Apple’s recent special event “Let’s Fly”, several products were unveiled, including the new tablet PCs iPad Air, iPad Pro, and the introduction of the new Apple M4 chip.
According to Apple’s presentation, the new iPad Pro is the first to be equipped with the M4 chip. The Apple M4 chip is based on the second generation of the 3nm process, boasting a total of 28 billion integrated transistors. In the CPU segment, it features 4 performance cores and 6 energy-efficient cores, delivering a 50% increase in performance compared to the M2. The GPU boasts 10 cores, resulting in an overall rendering performance 4 times higher than that of the M2, while consuming only half the power. (Check AnTuTu Benchmark comparison.)
Recent Geekbench performance tests for the Apple iPad Pro M4, featuring 16GB RAM and a 4.40GHz base frequency, reveal impressive results. The M4 achieves an average single-core score of around 3750 points and a multi-core average score of around 14500, representing nearly a 50% increase compared to the M2 chipset.
In terms of GPU performance scores on Geekbench Metal, the Apple iPad Pro M4 achieved 53792 points, approximately 20% higher than the M2-powered iPad Pro’s score of 45394 points. For machine learning tasks, the M4 chipset scored 9004 points compared to the 7400 points of the M2 chipset.
The Apple M4 chipset introduces dynamic caching, hardware-accelerated mesh shading, and ray tracing to the iPad series for the first time. Additionally, it is equipped with the iPad’s most advanced media processing engine to date, supporting AV1 decoding for high-resolution video playback with improved power efficiency.
Furthermore, the M4 chip features Apple’s most powerful neural network engine yet, capable of performing up to 38 trillion operations per second, representing a 60-fold increase in speed compared to the A11.
