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[Draugoth]

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• CPU has 4 perf and 6 efficiency cores•
10-core GPU with dynamic caching, mesh shading, and ray tracing
• up to 50% faster CPU performance than M2
• 38 TOPS of NPU perf

At its "Let Loose" event on Tuesday, Apple announced its M4 chip will be coming to its next generation of devices, starting with the iPad Pro. After rumors of a "true AI-powered device," the new OLED iPad Pro will include an upgraded M4 chip that's focused on improving performance for AI-related tasks in iPadOS. Apple focused heavily on the M4's AI capabilities, thanks to a new neural engine that's "an outrageously powerful chip for AI." It's supposedly 60 times faster than the A11's NPU and could allegedly rival AI chips from Intel, AMD, and Qualcomm.

Next-gen M4 chips start arriving in Apple devices this year

The first device with an M4 will be an iPad Pro.

www.theverge.com

 

[Bojanglez]

50% faster than M2

 

[dwish]

Why dont they compare it to M3?

Also, does anyone here have extensive experience with gaming on Mac AND PC? How does the M-gpu compare to desktop/laptop RTX and Radeons?

 

[Kupfer]

But 4 is 100% more than 2, why only 50% better though ?

 

[Magic Carpet]

Think of all the gaming that will never be done with this processor. The possibilities are end.

 

[DonkeyPunchJr]

Apple introduces M4 chip

Apple today announced M4, the latest Apple-designed silicon chip delivering phenomenal performance to the all-new iPad Pro.

www.apple.com

Diablo Immortal is getting ray tracing. Please be excited!

 

[Interfectum]

Why dont they compare it to M3?

Also, does anyone here have extensive experience with gaming on Mac AND PC? How does the M-gpu compare to desktop/laptop RTX and Radeons?

iPad never got M3, only M2.

 

[Dacvak]

My M2 Max is an absolute beast. I use Windows personally for gaming and macOS professionally, but I did try a few games like RE4 and Death Stranding on my MacBook, and they ran and looked fantastic.

It'd be really cool if more devs leveraged the Apple silicon chips for gaming. Their efficiency and performance are on another level for laptop/mobile use.

 

[Kataploom]

I just realized you can't connect two monitors to a Mac M1 without a third party USB addon that bypasses Apple measures. That plus me having to buy a third party app to make my TV work at more or less proper resolution + frame rate to work. WTF do people see in these machines? I can't believe how bad and overcomplicated they are to do the most basic stuff... I swear it's only because some are just used to them and won't move anywhere else no matter what...

Edit: You can connect two monitors without that addon but by OS limitation you'll only get video in one of them, not both.

 

[Radical_3d]

Finally a bump in bandwidth in the base model. Let's see if the Pro version corrects the crime of the M3 Pro.

 

[Cyberpunkd]

50% faster than M2

Can't wait to be offered 70€ game ports available anywhere else for 5€.

 

[Dacvak]

Can't wait to be offered 70€ game ports available anywhere else for 5€.

Just to play devils advocate, I wanted to buy Death Stranding DC a couple months ago, and it was $20 cheaper on Mac than anywhere else, including Steam. Plus it plays on my MacBook and iPhone with cross save.

Might have been a sale price or something, but I was originally planning on getting it for PS5 until I realized it was half the price on the App Store.

 

[BennyBlanco]

Think of all the gaming that will never be done with this processor. The possibilities are end.

They will get a Death Stranding 2 port from Apple fanboy Kojimbo

 

[Shake Your Rump]

But 4 is 100% than 2, why only 50% better though ?

Hmm... planned obsolescence???

 

[Kupfer]

Hmm... planned obsolescence???

There's no other way

 

[Trogdor1123]

But 4 is 100% than 2, why only 50% better though ?

But 2 is only 50% of 4! See it all works out now.

 

[Spyxos]

Ray tracing for the 2 games still to come for mac in 2025.

 

[Dr.D00p]

Lol $2K for a decently specced tablet with a pencil...

 

[Cattlyst]

No desire to upgrade my base M2 Macbook to be honest, even if M4 is 50% faster. Will it make YouTube and GAF run 50% faster? The Apple Tax on the app store is even worse than the Nintendo Tax on the eShop, too. Resident Evil 7 for 49.99 anyone? Anyone?

 

[dwish]

iPad never got M3, only M2.

Makes sense then, thanks!

 

[UltimaKilo]

My M2 Max is an absolute beast. I use Windows personally for gaming and macOS professionally, but I did try a few games like RE4 and Death Stranding on my MacBook, and they ran and looked fantastic.

It'd be really cool if more devs leveraged the Apple silicon chips for gaming. Their efficiency and performance are on another level for laptop/mobile use.

They're [very] slowly dipping their toes into gaming. It will be another couple of years before they go all in. My guess is that the Apple TV can be a big vehicle for them and gaming.

 

[twilo99]

 

[Trogdor1123]

Wish they could drop one of these into an Apple TV and then make a proper controller. Could be a pretty great console