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Apple A17 Pro vs Apple M4 Max (14-CPU 32-GPU)

Last updated: 2026-07-04

Table of Contents

Summary
Benchmarks
Specifications
User Reviews
Popular Comparisons

Summary

Benchmarks

Performance Overview
Average performance across multiple benchmarks

Single-core performance

Rank 2 - 73 %

Apple A17 Pro

Rank 1 - 100 %

Apple M4 Max (14-CPU 32-GPU)

Multi-core performance

Rank 2 - 31 %

Apple A17 Pro

Rank 1 - 100 %

Apple M4 Max (14-CPU 32-GPU)

Geekbench 6 Single-Core
Single-core performance

6C / 6T · 3.78 GHz

2,952

14C / 14T · 4.51 GHz

4,021

Geekbench 6 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

6C / 6T · 3.78 GHz

7,235

14C / 14T · 1.26 GHz

23,158

iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)

Apple A17 Pro (6 GPU Cores)

2,147

Apple M4 Max (32 Core)

13,640

AI performance (NPU)

6C / 6T · 0.70 GHz

35.0 TOPS

14C / 14T · 1.26 GHz

38.0 TOPS

More benchmarks

Cinebench 2026 (ST)
218 entries

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 9 Benchmark
90 entries

PassMark CPU-Mark
2,504 entries

AI performance (NPU)
218 entries

Specifications

At a glance

Wischen	Apple A17 Pro	Apple M4 Max (14-CPU 32-GPU)
Family	Apple A series (27)	Apple M series (38)
CPU group	Apple A17 Pro (1)	Apple M4 (7)
Architecture	Ibiza	M4
Technology	3 nm	3 nm
Segment	Smartphone / Tablet	Notebook
Socket
Predecessor	Apple A16 Bionic	Apple M3 Max (14-CPU 30-GPU)
Successor	Apple A18 Pro	Apple M5 Max (18-CPU 32-GPU)

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

Wischen	Apple A17 Pro	Apple M4 Max (14-CPU 32-GPU)
CPU Cores / Threads	6 / 6	14 / 14
Hyperthreading / SMT	✗	✗
Core architecture	hybrid (big.LITTLE)	hybrid (big.LITTLE)
Core Cluster 1:	2x Ibiza P-Core 0.70 - 3.78 GHz	10x Donan P-Core 1.26 - 4.51 GHz
Core Cluster 2:	4x Ibiza E-Core 0.74 - 2.11 GHz	4x Donan E-Core 1.02 - 2.59 GHz
L2-Cache	20.00 MB	44.00 MB
L3-Cache	24.00 MB
Overclocking	✗	✗

Integrated graphics (iGPU)

Wischen	Apple A17 Pro	Apple M4 Max (14-CPU 32-GPU)
GPU name	Apple A17 Pro (6 GPU Cores)	Apple M4 Max (32 Core)
GPU frequency	0.39 - 1.40 GHz	0.39 - 1.58 GHz
CUs / Shader	24 / 768	512 / 4096
Raytracing	✓	✓
Max. displays	1	3
Max. GPU Memory	6 GB	64 GB
Technology	3 nm	3 nm
Release date	Q3/2023	Q4/2024

NPU AI performance

Wischen	Apple A17 Pro	Apple M4 Max (14-CPU 32-GPU)
AI hardware	Apple Neural Engine	Apple Neural Engine
AI specifications	16 Neural cores @ 35 TOPS	16 Neural cores @ 38 TOPS
NPU + CPU + iGPU

Memory & PCIe

Wischen	Apple A17 Pro	Apple M4 Max (14-CPU 32-GPU)
Memory	LPDDR5-6400 (51.2 GB/s)	LPDDR5X-8533 (410.0 GB/s)
Max. Memory	8 GB	128 GB
Memory channels	1	6
ECC	No	No
PCIe		5.0
PCIe Bandwidth

Thermal Management

Wischen	Apple A17 Pro	Apple M4 Max (14-CPU 32-GPU)
TDP	11 W	75 W
TDP (PL2)
TDP up
TDP down
T. junction max.		100 °C

Technical details

Wischen	Apple A17 Pro	Apple M4 Max (14-CPU 32-GPU)
Chip design	Chiplet	Monolithic
AES-NI	✗	✓
Operating systems	iOS	macOS, iPadOS
Instruction set	Armv8.6-A (64 bit)	Armv9.2-A (64 bit)
ISA extensions		Rosetta 2 x86-Emulation, AVX2, SME
Release date	Q3/2023	Q4/2024
Release price
Documents

User Reviews

Your rating

Here you can rate one or both of the processors. The average rating of Apple A17 Pro is 4.1 stars (463 ratings), while Apple M4 Max (14-CPU 32-GPU) has received 4.8 stars (243 ratings).

Click on the stars to rate one or both processors.

Apple A17 Pro
6C / 6T · 0.70 - 3.78 GHz

★★★★★

Apple M4 Max (14-CPU 32-GPU)
14C / 14T · 1.26 - 4.51 GHz

★★★★★