Apple M4 Chip Details： Performance Soars Beyond M Series Predecessors

Recently, Apple officially released the much-anticipated M4 chip, which has achieved a leap in performance.It surpasses its predecessors M3 and M2 in an all-round way, and at the same time, it maintains significant performance advantages for M3 Pro and Snapdragon X Elite.

M4 chip can achieve such a huge leap in performance, not only because Apple adopted TSMC’s second-generation 3nm process, but more importantly, it adopted a brand-new ARMv9 architecture.

The introduction of this architecture enables M4 to run complex workloads more effectively, which brings higher single-core and multi-core performance gains.

According to Geekbench 6 benchmark test results, the single-core and multi-core performance of M4 chip has reached a new high. The achievement of this achievement,It not only benefits from the frequency increase of M4 chip and the increase of core number, but also benefits from the introduction of ARMv9 architecture and the support of SME (Extensible Matrix Extension).

SME technology is an important feature of ARMv9 architecture, which can help the processor to handle complex data operations and matrix calculations more efficiently. In the test of Geekbench 6, with the support of SME technology, M4 chip has made significant improvement in both single-core and multi-core performance.

Compared with M2 chip, M4 improves the single-core performance by about 48%, and the multi-core performance by about 52%. This performance improvement is large enough to make M4 stand out in the current mobile processor market.

It is worth noting that although Apple didn’t mention that M4 adopted the ARMv9 architecture at the press conference, this fact has been widely recognized by the industry. The introduction of ARMv9 architecture not only improves the performance, but also brings higher security and energy efficiency ratio.

At the same time, there are rumors that the upcoming A18 Pro will also adopt the ARMv9 architecture and support SME technology.This will make A18 Pro comparable to M4 in performance and become a strong competitor of Apple’s new generation flagship processor.

Although more details about M4 chip have not been announced yet, its outstanding performance has attracted wide attention in the industry.

We look forward to seeing more reports on the application and performance of M4 chips in the future, and we also expect Apple to continue to introduce more high-performance and low-power processor products, which will bring users a better experience.