Early Geekbench scores show M4 Pro may outpace Mac Pro

Supposed scores for the M4 Pro chipset have shown up on Geekbench, and it easily outperforms the Mac Pro with M2 Ultra in single- and multi-core scores.

The M4 Pro is an option for the new Mac mini and MacBook Pro. While these products don't launch for the public until November 8, early testers are running benchmarks.

According to a score for Mac16,7 on Geekbench, the M4 Pro is a powerful chipset capable of outperforming the M2 Ultra found in Mac Pro. It received a single-core score of 3,925 and a multi-core score of 22,669.

For comparison, the Mac Pro with M2 Ultra has a 2,868 single-core score and a 22,065 multi-core score. This is the configuration with a 24-core CPU and 192GB of RAM.

The Mac16,7 could be one of the new MacBook Pro models. It shows it has an M4 Pro clocking at 4.51GHz with a 14-core CPU and 48GB of RAM.

If these scores are accurate, the M4 Pro will prove to be a formidable chipset, to say nothing of M4 Max or the inevitable M4 Ultra. Review embargoes likely lift early next week ahead of the November 8 launch, so the Geekbench scores can be verified then.

7 Comments

jrfunk 9 Years · 15 comments

About 1 month ago

There must be something wrong with the Extreme chip! Or there was never an Extreme chip?

If it exists, that’s my replacement Mac Pro!

netrox 12 Years · 1510 comments

That is actually an incredible scale of performance. You can have a Mac mini configured just like that and it's only $2199 which is definitely cheaper than M2 Ultra starting at $3999 - it's much a mini version of Mac Studio.

entropys 13 Years · 4316 comments

The margins on a studio would have to be a lot better than a Mac mini. More headroom, particularly as more likely to be upspeccing.
it’s like getting up and leaving money on the table.

IG-apple_vienna New User · 7 comments

A Mac Studio with the M4 max would be the perfect machine - even faster than the M2 Ultra.

I hope they release it soon - because waiting for an M4 Ultra could take some time - and having the Mac mini outperforming the Mac Studio is a bit weird..

blastdoor 15 Years · 3594 comments

When you look at the subscores there are many where the M2 Ultra leads. Part of the issue is that not all components of the GB suite scale perfectly with more cores. That’s fine because that’s reality — some things scale well with more cores and some don’t.

But it means you need to really understand the details to know what to buy. Presumably people who buy the Ultra have workloads that scale well across many cores. For those folks, the M2 Ultra might still make more sense.

I think the comparison to the m1 ultra is more interesting because the m4 pro is at worst tied (more or less) on some tests but leads by large margins on others. So, at least for cpu, the m4 pro clearly beats the m1 ultra. That’s what really impresses me.