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Apple A11 Bionic vs Apple M4

Last updated: 2026-06-06

Table of Contents

Summary
Benchmarks
Specifications
User Reviews
Popular Comparisons

Summary

Benchmarks

Performance Overview
Average performance across multiple benchmarks

Single-core performance

Rank 2 - 33 %

Apple A11 Bionic

Rank 1 - 100 %

Apple M4

Multi-core performance

Rank 2 - 17 %

Apple A11 Bionic

Rank 1 - 100 %

Apple M4

Geekbench 6 Single-Core
Single-core performance

6C / 6T · 2.39 GHz

1,093

9C / 9T · 4.46 GHz

3,767

Geekbench 6 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

6C / 6T · 2.39 GHz

1,997

9C / 9T · 0.91 GHz

13,295

Geekbench 5, 64bit Single-Core
Single-core performance

6C / 6T · 2.39 GHz

932

9C / 9T · 4.46 GHz

2,491

iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)

Apple A11

409

Apple M4 (10 Core)

4,260

AI performance (NPU)

6C / 6T · 2.39 GHz

0.6 TOPS

9C / 9T · 0.91 GHz

38.0 TOPS

More benchmarks

Cinebench 2024 (SC)
427 entries

Cinebench 2024 (MC)
422 entries

Cinebench R23 (SC)
690 entries

Cinebench R23 (MC)
665 entries

Geekbench 6 (SC)
1,989 entries

Geekbench 6 (MC)
1,927 entries

Geekbench 5 (SC)
2,512 entries

Geekbench 5 (MC)
2,483 entries

FP32 SP (iGPU)
2,219 entries

AnTuTu 10 Benchmark
25 entries

AnTuTu 8 Benchmark
118 entries

PassMark CPU-Mark
2,504 entries

CPU performance per watt (efficiency)
140 entries

AI performance (NPU)
218 entries

Specifications

At a glance

Wischen	Apple A11 Bionic	Apple M4
Family	Apple A series (27)	Apple M series (38)
CPU group	Apple A11 (1)	Apple M4 (7)
Architecture	A11	M4
Technology	10 nm	3 nm
Segment	Smartphone / Tablet	Notebook
Socket
Predecessor	Apple A10 Fusion	Apple M3
Successor	Apple A12 Bionic	Apple M5

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

Wischen	Apple A11 Bionic	Apple M4
CPU Cores / Threads	6 / 6	9 / 9
Hyperthreading / SMT	✗	✗
Core architecture	hybrid (big.LITTLE)	hybrid (big.LITTLE)
Core Cluster 1:	2x Monsoon 2.39 GHz	3x Donan P-Core 0.91 - 4.46 GHz
Core Cluster 2:	4x Mistral 1.19 GHz	6x Donan E-Core 0.90 - 2.85 GHz
L2-Cache	8.00 MB	20.00 MB
L3-Cache
Overclocking	✗	✗

Integrated graphics (iGPU)

Wischen	Apple A11 Bionic	Apple M4
GPU name	Apple A11	Apple M4 (10 Core)
GPU frequency	1.07 GHz	0.34 - 1.58 GHz
CUs / Shader	12 / 192	160 / 1280
Raytracing	✗	✓
Max. displays	1	3
Max. GPU Memory	3 GB	24 GB
Technology	10 nm	3 nm
Release date	Q3/2017	Q2/2024

NPU AI performance

Wischen	Apple A11 Bionic	Apple M4
AI hardware	Apple Neural Engine	Apple Neural Engine
AI specifications	2 Neural cores @ 0.6 TOPS	16 Neural cores @ 38 TOPS
NPU + CPU + iGPU

Memory & PCIe

Wischen	Apple A11 Bionic	Apple M4
Memory	LPDDR4X-4266 (34.1 GB/s)	LPDDR5X-7500 (120.0 GB/s)
Max. Memory	3 GB	8 GB
Memory channels	1	2
ECC	No	No
PCIe		4.0
PCIe Bandwidth

Thermal Management

Wischen	Apple A11 Bionic	Apple M4
TDP	8 W	20 W
TDP (PL2)
TDP up
TDP down		15 W
T. junction max.		100 °C

Technical details

Wischen	Apple A11 Bionic	Apple M4
Chip design	Chiplet	Monolithic
AES-NI	✗	✓
Operating systems	iOS	macOS, iPadOS
Instruction set	Armv8-A (64 bit)	Armv9.2-A (64 bit)
ISA extensions		Rosetta 2 x86-Emulation, AVX2, SME
Release date	Q3/2017	Q2/2024
Release price
Documents		Technical data sheet

User Reviews

Your rating

Here you can rate one or both of the processors. The average rating of Apple A11 Bionic is 3.6 stars (54 ratings), while Apple M4 has received 4.2 stars (1056 ratings).

Click on the stars to rate one or both processors.

Apple A11 Bionic
6C / 6T · 2.39 GHz

★★★★★

Apple M4
9C / 9T · 0.91 - 4.46 GHz

★★★★★