M4 (8 cores): specs and benchmarks
Aggregate performance score
M4 (8 cores) provides good benchmark performance at 12.93% of a leader's which is a 192-core EPYC 9965.
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Summary
Apple started M4 (8 cores) sales 28 October 2024. This is a notebook processor primarily aimed at office systems. It has 8 cores and 8 threads, and is based on 3 nm manufacturing technology, with a maximum frequency of 4000 MHz and a locked multiplier.
Compatibility-wise, this is a processor with a TDP of 5 Watt.
Primary details
M4 (8 cores) processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and pricing.
| Place in the ranking | 671 | |
| Place by popularity | not in top-100 | |
| Market segment | Laptop | |
| Series | Apple M4 | |
| Power efficiency | 100.00 | |
| Designer | Apple | |
| Release date | 28 October 2024 (less than a year ago) |
Detailed specifications
Basic microprocessor parameters such as number of cores, number of threads, base frequency and turbo boost clock, lithography, cache size and multiplier lock state. These parameters can generally indicate CPU performance, but to be more precise you have to review its test results.
| Physical cores | 8 (Octa-Core) | |
| Threads | 8 | |
| Boost clock speed | 4 GHz | of 6.2 GHz (Core i9-14900KS) |
| Chip lithography | 3 nm | |
| 64 bit support | + |
Compatibility
Information on M4 (8 cores) compatibility with other computer components and devices: motherboard (look for socket type), power supply unit (look for power consumption) etc. Useful when planning a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. Note that power consumption of some processors can well exceed their nominal TDP, even without overclocking. Some can even double their declared thermals given that the motherboard allows to tune the CPU power parameters.
| Power consumption (TDP) | 5 Watt | of 500 Watt (Xeon 6960P) |
Graphics specifications
General parameters of a GPU integrated into M4 (8 cores).
| Integrated graphics card | Apple M4 8-core GPU |
Benchmark performance
Single-core and multi-core benchmark results of M4 (8 cores). Overall benchmark performance is measured in points in 0-100 range, higher is better.
Combined synthetic benchmark score
This is our combined benchmark performance rating.
Passmark
Passmark CPU Mark is a widespread benchmark, consisting of 8 different types of workload, including integer and floating point math, extended instructions, compression, encryption and physics calculation. There is also one separate single-threaded scenario measuring single-core performance. Other than that, Passmark measures multi-core performance.
Send your test results of M4 (8 cores).
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Recommended GPUs
People consider these graphics cards to be good for M4 (8 cores), according to our PC configuration statistics.
These are the fastest graphics cards for M4 (8 cores) in our user configuration statistics. There is a total of 65 configurations using M4 (8 cores) in our database.
