blastdoor

This is what progress looks like. 

apple4thewin said:

Fidonet127 said:

The Studio looks sad on this graph, being M2 series.

😂 especially being out performed by something 1/3 of its size

Probably not faster than an M2 Ultra in multithreaded workloads (and if your workload isn’t multithreaded you should not be buying a Studio), but still likely very fast. M2 Ultra should still be way faster for GPU

Wow, 14 cpu cores! Likely 8 performance and 6 efficiency. It will be interesting to compare to the m1 ultra on the geekbench sub-scores.

rodwslc said:

I see that Apple said that the M4 is 1.7 times faster than the M1, how about telling us how much faster the M4 is compared to the M2 & the M3.

Could it be that it’s not very much faster than the M3?

From a GeekBench perspective it's definitely faster than the M3, but the numbers are tricky to interpret. When you drill down to the sub-scores, there's tremendous variation in the performance change between m3 and m4. The m4 is anywhere from 10% faster to more than twice as fast as the M3. The really big gains are likely due to Apple adopting ARM v9 SME instructions. That's tricky to interpret because M1-M3 had something that did a similar job -- called AMX. But AMX was only indirectly accessible through Apple's CoreML, which meant that Geekbench didn't take advantage of AMX.

So... another way to look at these numbers is that M1-M3 were actually faster for software that used CoreML than what Geekbench indicated.  Yet expanding the range of software that can be accelerated is definitely an advantage for M4. 

I’m really curious about the m4 pro specs. I guess the most likely is the same core counts as m3 pro, but 8 performance cores instead of 6 would be a welcome surprise