Share link|

Submit benchmark

Comparison Search Benchmarks CPUs Leaderboards CPU News & Articles GPU comparison Apple product comparison

Deutsch English Español Français Italiano Japanese

Apple M2 (8-GPU) vs Apple M4 Pro (14-CPU 20-GPU)

Last updated: 2026-06-03

Table of Contents

Summary
Benchmarks
Specifications
User Reviews
Popular Comparisons

Summary

Benchmarks

Performance Overview
Average performance across multiple benchmarks

Single-core performance

Rank 2 - 69 %

Apple M2 (8-GPU)

Rank 1 - 100 %

Apple M4 Pro (14-CPU 20-GPU)

Multi-core performance

Rank 2 - 38 %

Apple M2 (8-GPU)

Rank 1 - 100 %

Apple M4 Pro (14-CPU 20-GPU)

Cinebench 2026 Single-Thread
Single-core performance

8C / 8T · 3.50 GHz

470 pts

14C / 14T · 4.51 GHz

661 pts

Cinebench 2026 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

8C / 8T · 3.50 GHz

2,316 pts

14C / 14T · 4.51 GHz

6,602 pts

Cinebench 2024 Single-Core
Single-core performance

8C / 8T · 3.50 GHz

120 pts

14C / 14T · 4.51 GHz

176 pts

Cinebench 2024 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

8C / 8T · 3.50 GHz

555 pts

14C / 14T · 4.51 GHz

1,742 pts

Cinebench R23 Single-Core
Single-core performance

8C / 8T · 3.50 GHz

1,592 pts

14C / 14T · 4.51 GHz

2,165 pts

Cinebench R23 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

8C / 8T · 3.50 GHz

8,558 pts

14C / 14T · 3.50 GHz

23,436 pts

Geekbench 6 Single-Core
Single-core performance

8C / 8T · 3.50 GHz

2,596

14C / 14T · 4.51 GHz

3,940

Geekbench 6 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

8C / 8T · 3.50 GHz

10,062

14C / 14T · 3.50 GHz

22,700

iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)

Apple M2 (8 Core)

2,840

Apple M4 Pro (20 Core)

8,013

AI performance (NPU)

8C / 8T · 0.66 GHz

15.8 TOPS

14C / 14T · 1.26 GHz

38.0 TOPS

More benchmarks

Cinebench 2026 (ST)
218 entries

Cinebench 2026 (MC)
219 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

PassMark CPU-Mark
2,504 entries

Blender 2.81 (bmw27)
190 entries

CPU performance per watt (efficiency)
140 entries

AI performance (NPU)
218 entries

Specifications

At a glance

Wischen	Apple M2 (8-GPU)	Apple M4 Pro (14-CPU 20-GPU)
Family	Apple M series (38)	Apple M series (38)
CPU group	Apple M2 (8)	Apple M4 (7)
Architecture	M2	M4
Technology	5 nm	3 nm
Segment	Notebook	Notebook
Socket
Predecessor	Apple M1	Apple M3 Pro (12-CPU 18-GPU)
Successor	Apple M3 (8-GPU)	Apple M5 Pro (18-CPU 20-GPU)

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

Wischen	Apple M2 (8-GPU)	Apple M4 Pro (14-CPU 20-GPU)
CPU Cores / Threads	8 / 8	14 / 14
Hyperthreading / SMT	✗	✗
Core architecture	hybrid (big.LITTLE)	hybrid (big.LITTLE)
Core Cluster 1:	4x Avalanche 0.66 - 3.50 GHz	10x Donan P-Core 1.26 - 4.51 GHz
Core Cluster 2:	4x Blizzard 0.60 - 2.42 GHz	4x Donan E-Core 1.02 - 2.59 GHz
L2-Cache	20.00 MB	36.00 MB
L3-Cache
Overclocking	✗	✗

Integrated graphics (iGPU)

Wischen	Apple M2 (8-GPU)	Apple M4 Pro (14-CPU 20-GPU)
GPU name	Apple M2 (8 Core)	Apple M4 Pro (20 Core)
GPU frequency	0.45 - 1.40 GHz	0.39 - 1.58 GHz
CUs / Shader	128 / 1024	320 / 2560
Raytracing	✗	✓
Max. displays	2	3
Max. GPU Memory	24 GB	32 GB
Technology	5 nm	3 nm
Release date	Q2/2022	Q4/2024

NPU AI performance

Wischen	Apple M2 (8-GPU)	Apple M4 Pro (14-CPU 20-GPU)
AI hardware	Apple Neural Engine	Apple Neural Engine
AI specifications	16 Neural cores @ 15.8 TOPS	16 Neural cores @ 38 TOPS
NPU + CPU + iGPU

Memory & PCIe

Wischen	Apple M2 (8-GPU)	Apple M4 Pro (14-CPU 20-GPU)
Memory	LPDDR5-6400 (102.4 GB/s)	LPDDR5X-8533 (273.0 GB/s)
Max. Memory	24 GB	64 GB
Memory channels	2	4
ECC	No	No
PCIe	4.0	5.0
PCIe Bandwidth

Thermal Management

Wischen	Apple M2 (8-GPU)	Apple M4 Pro (14-CPU 20-GPU)
TDP	20 W	50 W
TDP (PL2)
TDP up	25 W
TDP down	10 W
T. junction max.	100 °C	100 °C

Technical details

Wischen	Apple M2 (8-GPU)	Apple M4 Pro (14-CPU 20-GPU)
Chip design	Monolithic	Monolithic
AES-NI	✓	✓
Operating systems	macOS, iPadOS	macOS, iPadOS
Instruction set	Armv8.5-A (64 bit)	Armv9.2-A (64 bit)
ISA extensions	Rosetta 2 x86-Emulation	Rosetta 2 x86-Emulation, AVX2, SME
Release date	Q2/2022	Q4/2024
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 M2 (8-GPU) is 4.6 stars (108 ratings), while Apple M4 Pro (14-CPU 20-GPU) has received 4.8 stars (455 ratings).

Click on the stars to rate one or both processors.

Apple M2 (8-GPU)
8C / 8T · 0.66 - 3.50 GHz

★★★★★

Apple M4 Pro (14-CPU 20-GPU)
14C / 14T · 1.26 - 4.51 GHz

★★★★★