Apple M4 Ultra vs M1 Ultra
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We compared two CPUs: the 4.52 GHz Apple M4 Ultra (desktop) with 32-cores against the 3.2 GHz M1 Ultra (laptop) with 20-cores. On this page, you'll find out which processor has better performance in benchmarks, games and other useful information.
Please note that the tests on the Apple M4 Ultra are done on an engineering sample provided by our insiders. The data will be more accurate after the final version of this CPU is available.
Key Differences
Advantages of Apple M4 Ultra
- Newer - released 3 years and 2 months later
- More modern manufacturing process – 3 versus 5 nanometers
- 67% faster in a single-core Geekbench v6 test - 4062 vs 2436 points
- Has 12 more physical cores
- Supports up to 192 GB LPDDR5X-8533 RAM
- More powerful Apple M4 Ultra GPU (80-core) integrated graphics: 32.3 vs 21.2 TFLOPS
- Around 232.8 GB/s (28%) higher theoretical memory bandwidth
Test in Benchmarks
Comparing the performance of CPUs across various tasksCinebench
Cinebench 2024 (Single)
Cinebench 2024 (Multi)
GeekBench v6
Geekbench 6 (Single-Core)
Geekbench 6 (Multi-Core)
| File compression | - | 2000 MB/sec |
| Clang compilation | - | 189 Klines/sec |
| HTML 5 Browser | - | 513.5 pages/sec |
| PDF Renderer | - | 548.8 Mpixels/sec |
| Text processing | - | 250.5 pages/sec |
| Background blur | - | 42.3 images/sec |
| Photo processing | - | 151.4 images/sec |
| Ray tracing | - | 27.8 Mpixels/sec |
PassMark
Passmark CPU (Single-Core)
Passmark CPU (Multi-Core)
| Integer math | - | 92.4 GOps/sec |
| Floating point math | - | 130.1 GOps/sec |
| Find prime numbers | - | 538M Primes/sec |
| Random string sorting | - | 66.8M Strings/sec |
| Data encryption | - | 24.9 GBytes/sec |
| Data compression | - | 556.6 MBytes/sec |
| Physics | - | 5558 Frames/sec |
| Extended instructions | - | 25.4B Matrices/sec |
Blender
Blender CPU
Performance Per Watt
| Cinebench 2024 / Watt | - | 23.2 PPW |
| Geekbench 6 Multi / Watt | - | 264.7 PPW |
| Passmark CPU Mark / Watt | - | 591.3 PPW |
| Blender / Watt | - | 5.81 PPW |
These are rough calculations, as most CPUs surpass PL1 TDP wattage even in multicore workloads.
Specifications
Full technical specification of Apple M4 Ultra and M1 UltraGeneral
| Vendor | Apple | Apple |
| Released | May 1, 2025 | March 8, 2022 |
| Type | Desktop | Laptop |
| Instruction Set | ARMv9 | ARMv8 |
| Codename | Apple M4 | Apple M1 |
| Model number | - | APL1106/APL1W06 |
| Integrated GPU | Apple M4 Ultra GPU (80-core) | Apple M1 Ultra GPU (64-core) |
| Rival Equivalent | - | - Intel Core i9 12900K |
| Successor | - | - Apple M4 Ultra |
CPU
| P-Cores | 24 | 16 |
| P-Threads | 24 | 16 |
| Base Frequency (P) | 4.52 GHz | 3.2 GHz |
| E-Cores | 8 | 4 |
| E-Threads | 8 | 4 |
| Base Frequency (E) | 2.89 GHz | 2.1 GHz |
| Total Cores | 32 | 20 |
| Total Threads | 32 | 20 |
| Multiplier | 45x | - |
| L1 Cache | - | 192K (per core) |
| L2 Cache | - | 48MB (shared) |
| Unlocked Multiplier | No | No |
Package
| Transistors | - | 114 billions |
| Fabrication Process | 3 nm | 5 nm |
| TDP (PL1) | - | 70 W |
| Socket | Apple M-Socket | Apple M-Socket |
| Peak Temperature | 100°C | - |
iGPU
| Integrated Graphics | Apple M4 Ultra GPU (80-core) | Apple M1 Ultra GPU (64-core) |
| GPU Base Clock | 500 MHz | 450 MHz |
| GPU Boost Clock | 1578 MHz | 1296 MHz |
| Shading Units | 10240 | 8192 |
| TMUs | 640 | 512 |
| ROPs | 320 | 256 |
| Execution Units | 1280 | 1024 |
| TGP | 120 W | 120 W |
iGPU FLOPS
Memory Support
| Memory Types | - LPDDR5X-8533 | - LPDDR5-6400 |
| Max. Memory Size | 192 GB | 128 GB |
| Memory Channels | 64 | 8 |
| Max. Memory Bandwidth | 1052 GB/s | 819.2 GB/s |
| ECC Support | No | No |
Misc
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