The scores look amazing, especially pleased to see a nice single core boost!
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iPad Pro M4 Geekbench scores wow…
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That is a nice bump. Hoping this translates to more AAA games on the iPad.
This is truly incredible. I have an M1 Pro 16" MBP... It still does everything I need it to do, sometimes without even batting an eye... I suspect I won't upgrade for a long while, and when I do, I may just go for a MBA on M7 or M8 given the trajectory of the speed of these things. It's wild!
Yepp... That's quite an impressive score... didn't expect a another leap forward after the M3 but rather a minor refresh of perhaps 10%... not 20%+
As someone who just bought an M3 MacBook: WTF Apple?
I mean I'm perfectly happy with the performance of the M3, but I'm pretty sure a lot of people will now wait for the M4 Macbooks knowing the CPU is already outdated...
Anyway, the CPU is wasted in the iPad... like putting a V8 on a lawn mower...
As someone who just bought an M3 MacBook: WTF Apple?
I mean I'm perfectly happy with the performance of the M3, but I'm pretty sure a lot of people will now wait for the M4 Macbooks knowing the CPU is already outdated...
Anyway, the CPU is wasted in the iPad... like putting a V8 on a lawn mower...
If the M1 chip introduction was any indicator so far, I’d say we’re in for more of the same.
I get where you’re coming from but the average MacBook buyer in my opinion is not spec driven but wants an affordable Mac experience. I doubt that most would care about the high end iPad chips right now.
People who are moving to the Mac from Windows where it's their first Macbook: yes... -but those who upgrade will likely stick with their current device a little longer, because those who are upgrading are in most cases doing so because their old HW is too slow, so for them specs matter.
This just makes me really excited for the M4 Pro / Max chips. 
I'm waiting for the M4 Ultra to replace the M2 Ultra. Really excited.This just makes me really excited for the M4 Pro / Max chips.
why would you need that already?
But but but the ad is bad so we shouldn't buy it! 😡
They might skip m4 pro and go straight to m4, m4 max and m4 ultra. An overclocked (as per mac apple silicon fashion) m4 with few more gpu cores can easily match m3 pro performance while delivering 2x more npu power thanks to the inclusion of half precision instructions. This can allow them to deliver m3 pro performance in the 1.599 base mx mbp sku with hopefully 16gb ram this time. I'm not sad that I bought an m3 pro model, I'm just in awe of this generational bump as m3 family is already stupid fast, and i'm excited for my 2027-8 macbook or ipad pro purchase
This is so weird. What is the M4 Pro going to look like then? Just 2 more perf cores and more GPU cores and more display driver? I don't know if I like this product segmentation. The normal and Pro chips are so close together and then there is a massive gap to the Max.
I'm confused with the Metal score, my M1 Ultra gives me 119033 (which is much faster than the M4 here at 53630).
Any chances this is Geekbench 5?
I believe those scores are from the one terabyte version of the new iPad That cost a whole lot more money. I’d like to see the numbers to the 256 and 512 MB version.
Tim Taylor would like a word with you about your analogy
Hi, that's me! I just bought a base M1 MBA from Walmart for $699. I follow Apple products pretty closely, and yet this M1 MBA is blazing fast for my needs. It's still such an incredible machine.
That being said, I'm impressed with the M4. I really want the new iPad because it looks like a big improvement over my 2018 11" iPP, but I don't have the spare change.
If that's all verified, and that's what the M4 can achieve IN A 5mm TABLET, then one suspects it could do even better in a laptop!
It's been suggested that we should see about 12% gain year on year in single core currently.... which lines up nicely and puts us about 6 months ahead of the curve with the M series chips, considering the launch of the M1 3 1/2 years ago. 👍🏼
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Phew! If true (early geekbench scores of M3 were a little high), this is a way more significant jump then I expected. That single core score is nuts. Needed a 14 in' MBP this year and got a legend deal on an M3 Max -- but now I'm like, so what? Well -- honestly, we don't know the core layout and I need performance cores for my audio workflow. However, if the new MBP line comes with OLED, face id, monstrous single core performance it might be tempting.
Unfortunately, Apple will make sure that getting the keys to the M4 kingdom will come at a hefty price.
Unfortunately, Apple will make sure that getting the keys to the M4 kingdom will come at a hefty price.
Your M1 Ultra has 64 GPU cores, an M4 has 10. Metal is a GPU benchmark.
Core for core, the M4 is way faster (45% of the performance using just 15% of the cores).