Key Differences
Advantages of Apple M4 (10-Core)
Advantages of Apple M1 Max
Specifications
Performance
| Integrated GPU | Apple M4 GPU (10-core) | Apple M1 Max GPU (32-core) |
| TGP | 18 W | 60 W |
Display
| Type | Laptop | Laptop |
Other
| File compression | 1500 MB/sec | 1450 MB/sec |
| Clang compilation | 120.2 Klines/sec | 105.1 Klines/sec |
| HTML 5 Browser | 329.3 pages/sec | 329.2 pages/sec |
| PDF Renderer | 362.1 Mpixels/sec | 317 Mpixels/sec |
| Text processing | 352.1 pages/sec | 249.6 pages/sec |
| Background blur | 69.8 images/sec | 42.2 images/sec |
| Photo processing | 114.4 images/sec | 122.8 images/sec |
| Ray tracing | 18.1 Mpixels/sec | 14.9 Mpixels/sec |
| Integer math | 54.7 GOps/sec | 46.3 GOps/sec |
| Floating point math | 49.9 GOps/sec | 64.6 GOps/sec |
| Find prime numbers | 267M Primes/sec | 278M Primes/sec |
| Random string sorting | 34.5M Strings/sec | 32.8M Strings/sec |
| Data encryption | 15.2 GBytes/sec | 12.3 GBytes/sec |
| Data compression | 283.4 MBytes/sec | 275 MBytes/sec |
| Physics | 2516 Frames/sec | 2817 Frames/sec |
| Extended instructions | 13.8B Matrices/sec | 12.6B Matrices/sec |
| Cinebench 2024 / Watt | 40.9 PPW | 15.8 PPW |
| Geekbench 6 Multi / Watt | 617.4 PPW | 253.5 PPW |
| Passmark CPU Mark / Watt | 992.6 PPW | 443 PPW |
| Blender / Watt | 9.58 PPW | 3.98 PPW |
| Vendor | Apple | Apple |
| Released | May 7, 2024 | October 18, 2021 |
| Instruction Set | ARMv9 | ARMv8 |
| Codename | Apple M4 | Apple M1 |
| Rival Equivalent | Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite (X1E-84-100) | - |
| P-Cores | 4 | 8 |
| P-Threads | 4 | 8 |
| Base Frequency (P) | 4.46 GHz | 3.2 GHz |
| E-Cores | 6 | 2 |
| E-Threads | 6 | 2 |
| Base Frequency (E) | 2.89 GHz | 2.1 GHz |
| Total Cores | 10 | 10 |
| Total Threads | 10 | 10 |
| Multiplier | 44x | - |
| L1 Cache | 192K (per core) | 192K (per core) |
| L2 Cache | 16MB (shared) | 24MB (shared) |
| Unlocked Multiplier | No | No |
| Transistors | 28 billions | 57 billions |
| Fabrication Process | 3 nm | 5 nm |
| TDP (PL1) | 24 W | 50 W |
| Max. Boost TDP (PL2) | 40 W | - |
| Socket | Apple M-Socket | Apple M-Socket |
| Peak Temperature | 100°C | - |
| Integrated Graphics | Apple M4 GPU (10-core) | Apple M1 Max GPU (32-core) |
| GPU Base Clock | 500 MHz | 450 MHz |
| GPU Boost Clock | 1700 MHz | 1296 MHz |
| Shading Units | 1280 | 4096 |
| TMUs | 80 | 256 |
| ROPs | 40 | 128 |
| Execution Units | 160 | 512 |
| Memory Types | - LPDDR5X-7500 | - LPDDR5-6400 |
| Max. Memory Size | 32 GB | 64 GB |
| Memory Channels | 4 | 8 |
| Max. Memory Bandwidth | 120 GB/s | 409.6 GB/s |
| ECC Support | No | No |