First M4 Mac Gets Spotted In New Benchmark Leak, With Slightly Higher Single-Core, Multi-Core Scores Than The Same SoC Featured In iPad Pro Models

Apple is reportedly gearing up to launch five M4 Macs potentially on November 1, so it is hardly surprising to learn that one of them got spotted just a few minutes ago on a benchmarking database. Just like the powerful chipset powering the 11-inch and 13-inch iPad Pro models, we get to witness impressive single-core and multi-core results, with the latest figures marginally higher than what Apple’s incredibly thin slates achieved.

Small performance boost thanks to the M4 Mac’s active cooling fan might have contributed to the nominal increase in single-core and multi-core results

The M4 Mac sporting the identifier Mac16,1 was recently benchmarked on Geekbench 6, obtaining a single-core and multi-core result of 3,864 and 15,288. In case you were wondering, the M4 running in this particular model was the top-end version that features four performance and six power-efficiency cores, while operating at a maximum frequency of 4.41GHz.

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The results also reveal that this machine in question features 16GB of unified RAM, which makes us wonder if it is the same 14-inch M4 MacBook Pro that had recently gone on sale in a private Facebook group before the official announcement, as the leaked retail box also had 16GB of memory mentioned in the specifications part. In any case, the chipset running in the Mac performs slightly higher than the 10-core CPU variant powering the iPad Pro’s innards.

It is possible that the M4 Mac’s active cooling fan delivered a small boost in these scores, because an earlier Geekbench 6 revealed that the tablet with the unique identifier iPad16,6 achieved a single-core of 3,767 and a multi-core score of 14,677. While these scores are within margin of error, do note that the M4 benefits greatly from increased cooling. In fact, when Apple’s iPad Pro was cooling using liquid nitrogen, it successfully broke the 4,000 single-core score ceiling.

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