So now the Geekbench 6 CPU benchmarks have turned from a “trickle into a deluge” according to Tom’s Hardware. Further, Tom’s writes that the M4 is about 16% faster than Intel’s flagship Core i9-14900KS. Considering what a power hog the Intel chips are, even if the M4 just kept up, but at the considerably reduced power requirements of Apple Silicon, it would still be an overwhelming victory over the dark forces of Intel.

I’m not about to move away from my stance in my earlier post, as these benchmarks are all synthetic. Furthermore it’s using the iPad which I am not interested in purchasing, regardless the price. What I want to see, and personally try out if possible, is an M4 Max version in a MacBook Pro, using real world software performing real world tasks.

Writing Notes

Note that the split view above is with the Arc browser, showing two different views of the same page. This is the usefulness of the tool I alluded to in the last post.

Links

Incredible Apple M4 benchmarks suggest it is the new single-core performance champ, beating Intel’s Core i9-14900KS — results of 3,800+ posted — https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/cpus/apple-m4-scores-suggest-it-is-the-new-single-core-performance-champ-beating-intels-core-i9-14900ks-incredible-results-of-3800-posted