M4

Base-tier member of the M4 family

4 variants

Spec M4
10c CPU / 10c GPU
M4
9c CPU / 10c GPU
M4
8c CPU / 9c GPU
M4
8c CPU / 8c GPU
Devices iMac
Mac mini
iPad Air 13″
iPad Air 11″
iMac
CPU
CPU Cores 10 9 8 8
Performance Cores 4 3 3 4
Performance Core Speed (GHz) 4.4 4.4 4.4 4.4
Efficiency Cores 6 6 5 4
Efficiency Core Speed (GHz) 2.85 2.85 2.85 2.85
SLC Cache (MB) 20 20 20 20
GPU
GPU cores 10 10 9 8
Execution Units 160 160 144 128
ALU Count 1280 1280 1152 1024
GPU Frequency (GHz) 1470 1470 1470 1470
TFLOPS 4.26 4.26 3.84 3.41
Ray Tracing
GPU Vendor 8th-gen Apple 8th-gen Apple 8th-gen Apple 8th-gen Apple
NPU
Neural Engine cores 16 16 16 16
Neural Engine TOPS 38 38 38 38
Memory
Memory bandwidth (GB/s) 120 120 120 120
Memory bus width (bits) 128 128 128 128
Memory channels 2 2 2 2
Memory channel width (bits) 64 64 64
Memory type LPDDR5X-7500 LPDDR5X-7500 LPDDR5X-7500 LPDDR5X-7500
Memory options (GB) 8
16
24
32
8
16
24
32
12 8
16
24
32
Media Engine
Hardware Acceleration H264
HEVC
ProRes
ProRes RAW
H264
HEVC
ProRes
ProRes RAW
H264
HEVC
ProRes
ProRes RAW
H264
HEVC
ProRes
ProRes RAW
Video Decode 1 1 1 1
Video Encode 1 1 1 1
ProRes Engines 1 1 1 1
AV1 Decode 1 1 1 1
Semiconductor Tech
Process node (nm) 3
Release date 2024-05-15 2024-05-15 2026-03-02 2024-05-15

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