Key Differences
Advantages of Apple M4 Pro (12-Core)
Advantages of Apple M3 Pro
Specifications
Performance
| Integrated GPU | Apple M4 Pro GPU (16-core) | Apple M3 Pro GPU (18-core) |
| TGP | 26 W | 30 W |
Display
| Type | Laptop | Laptop |
Other
| File compression | 2120 MB/sec | 1560 MB/sec |
| Clang compilation | 165.8 Klines/sec | 132.6 Klines/sec |
| HTML 5 Browser | 484.7 pages/sec | 382.9 pages/sec |
| PDF Renderer | 486.8 Mpixels/sec | 393.2 Mpixels/sec |
| Text processing | 368.5 pages/sec | 301 pages/sec |
| Background blur | 84.2 images/sec | 61.4 images/sec |
| Photo processing | 189.3 images/sec | 144.1 images/sec |
| Ray tracing | 25.9 Mpixels/sec | 19.7 Mpixels/sec |
| Integer math | 71.3 GOps/sec | 55.9 GOps/sec |
| Floating point math | 71.9 GOps/sec | 64.8 GOps/sec |
| Find prime numbers | 463M Primes/sec | 241M Primes/sec |
| Random string sorting | 46.6M Strings/sec | 35.3M Strings/sec |
| Data encryption | 19.6 GBytes/sec | 14.5 GBytes/sec |
| Data compression | 412.6 MBytes/sec | 290.9 MBytes/sec |
| Physics | 4817 Frames/sec | 2064 Frames/sec |
| Extended instructions | 22B Matrices/sec | 14.1B Matrices/sec |
| Cinebench 2024 / Watt | 38.9 PPW | 35.3 PPW |
| Geekbench 6 Multi / Watt | 539.4 PPW | 517.1 PPW |
| Passmark CPU Mark / Watt | 865.4 PPW | 805.3 PPW |
| Blender / Watt | - | 7.62 PPW |
| Vendor | Apple | Apple |
| Released | October 29, 2024 | October 30, 2023 |
| Instruction Set | ARMv9 | ARMv8 |
| Codename | Apple M4 | Apple M3 |
| P-Cores | 8 | 6 |
| P-Threads | 8 | 6 |
| Base Frequency (P) | 4.51 GHz | 4.05 GHz |
| E-Cores | 4 | 6 |
| E-Threads | 4 | 6 |
| Base Frequency (E) | 2.59 GHz | 2.75 GHz |
| Total Cores | 12 | 12 |
| Total Threads | 12 | 12 |
| Multiplier | 45x | 40x |
| L1 Cache | 192K (per core) | 192K (per core) |
| L2 Cache | 16MB (shared) | 16MB (shared) |
| Unlocked Multiplier | No | No |
| Transistors | - | 37 billions |
| Fabrication Process | 3 nm | 3 nm |
| TDP (PL1) | 38 W | 30 W |
| Socket | Apple M-Socket | Apple M-Socket |
| Peak Temperature | 100°C | 100°C |
| Integrated Graphics | Apple M4 Pro GPU (16-core) | Apple M3 Pro GPU (18-core) |
| GPU Base Clock | 500 MHz | 500 MHz |
| GPU Boost Clock | 1800 MHz | 1600 MHz |
| Shading Units | 2048 | 2304 |
| TMUs | 128 | 144 |
| ROPs | 64 | 72 |
| Execution Units | 256 | 288 |
| Memory Types | - LPDDR5X-8533 | - LPDDR5-6400 |
| Max. Memory Size | 64 GB | 36 GB |
| Memory Channels | 4 | 3 |
| Max. Memory Bandwidth | 273 GB/s | 153.6 GB/s |
| ECC Support | No | No |
| Rival Equivalent | - | - |
| Max. Boost TDP (PL2) | - | - |
| PCI Express Version | - | 4.0 |