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Apple M4 Pro (12-CPU 16-GPU) vs Apple M3 (8-GPU)

Last updated: 2026-06-04

Table of Contents

Summary
Benchmarks
Specifications
User Reviews
Popular Comparisons

Summary

Benchmarks

Performance Overview
Average performance across multiple benchmarks

Single-core performance

Rank 1 - 100 %

Apple M4 Pro (12-CPU 16-GPU)

Rank 2 - 83 %

Apple M3 (8-GPU)

Multi-core performance

Rank 1 - 100 %

Apple M4 Pro (12-CPU 16-GPU)

Rank 2 - 51 %

Apple M3 (8-GPU)

Cinebench 2026 Single-Thread
Single-core performance

12C / 12T · 4.51 GHz

672 pts

8C / 8T · 4.06 GHz

557 pts

Cinebench 2026 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

12C / 12T · 4.51 GHz

5,547 pts

8C / 8T · 4.06 GHz

2,672 pts

Cinebench 2024 Single-Core
Single-core performance

12C / 12T · 4.51 GHz

176 pts

8C / 8T · 4.06 GHz

137 pts

Cinebench 2024 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

12C / 12T · 4.51 GHz

1,692 pts

8C / 8T · 4.06 GHz

659 pts

Cinebench R23 Single-Core
Single-core performance

12C / 12T · 4.51 GHz

2,165 pts

8C / 8T · 4.06 GHz

1,965 pts

Cinebench R23 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

12C / 12T · 3.60 GHz

19,288 pts

8C / 8T · 4.06 GHz

10,437 pts

Geekbench 6 Single-Core
Single-core performance

12C / 12T · 4.51 GHz

3,940

8C / 8T · 4.06 GHz

3,125

Geekbench 6 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

12C / 12T · 3.60 GHz

20,124

8C / 8T · 4.06 GHz

11,863

iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)

Apple M4 Pro (16 Core)

6,410

Apple M3 (8 Core)

2,840

AI performance (NPU)

12C / 12T · 1.26 GHz

38.0 TOPS

8C / 8T · 0.70 GHz

35.0 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

CPU performance per watt (efficiency)
140 entries

AI performance (NPU)
218 entries

Specifications

At a glance

Wischen	Apple M4 Pro (12-CPU 16-GPU)	Apple M3 (8-GPU)
Family	Apple M series (38)	Apple M series (38)
CPU group	Apple M4 (7)	Apple M3 (6)
Architecture	M4	M3
Technology	3 nm	3 nm
Segment	Notebook	Notebook
Socket
Predecessor	Apple M3 Pro (11-CPU 14-GPU)	Apple M2 (8-GPU)
Successor	Apple M5 Pro (15-CPU 16-GPU)

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

Wischen	Apple M4 Pro (12-CPU 16-GPU)	Apple M3 (8-GPU)
CPU Cores / Threads	12 / 12	8 / 8
Hyperthreading / SMT	✗	✗
Core architecture	hybrid (big.LITTLE)	hybrid (big.LITTLE)
Core Cluster 1:	8x Donan P-Core 1.26 - 4.51 GHz	4x Ibiza P-Core 0.70 - 4.06 GHz
Core Cluster 2:	4x Donan E-Core 1.02 - 2.59 GHz	4x Ibiza E-Core 0.74 - 2.75 GHz
L2-Cache	36.00 MB	20.00 MB
L3-Cache
Overclocking	✗	✗

Integrated graphics (iGPU)

Wischen	Apple M4 Pro (12-CPU 16-GPU)	Apple M3 (8-GPU)
GPU name	Apple M4 Pro (16 Core)	Apple M3 (8 Core)
GPU frequency	0.39 - 1.58 GHz	0.39 - 1.40 GHz
CUs / Shader	256 / 2048	128 / 1024
Raytracing	✓	✓
Max. displays	3	2
Max. GPU Memory	32 GB	24 GB
Technology	3 nm	3 nm
Release date	Q4/2024	Q4/2023

NPU AI performance

Wischen	Apple M4 Pro (12-CPU 16-GPU)	Apple M3 (8-GPU)
AI hardware	Apple Neural Engine	Apple Neural Engine
AI specifications	16 Neural cores @ 38 TOPS	16 Neural cores @ 35 TOPS
NPU + CPU + iGPU

Memory & PCIe

Wischen	Apple M4 Pro (12-CPU 16-GPU)	Apple M3 (8-GPU)
Memory	LPDDR5X-8533 (273.0 GB/s)	LPDDR5-6400 (102.4 GB/s)
Max. Memory	64 GB	24 GB
Memory channels	4	2
ECC	No	No
PCIe	5.0	4.0
PCIe Bandwidth

Thermal Management

Wischen	Apple M4 Pro (12-CPU 16-GPU)	Apple M3 (8-GPU)
TDP	45 W	22 W
TDP (PL2)
TDP up
TDP down		10 W
T. junction max.	100 °C	100 °C

Technical details

Wischen	Apple M4 Pro (12-CPU 16-GPU)	Apple M3 (8-GPU)
Chip design	Monolithic	Monolithic
AES-NI	✓	✓
Operating systems	macOS, iPadOS	macOS, iPadOS
Instruction set	Armv9.2-A (64 bit)	Armv8-A (64 bit)
ISA extensions	Rosetta 2 x86-Emulation, AVX2, SME	Rosetta 2 x86-Emulation
Release date	Q4/2024	Q4/2023
Release price
Documents

User Reviews

Your rating

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Click on the stars to rate one or both processors.

Apple M4 Pro (12-CPU 16-GPU)
12C / 12T · 1.26 - 4.51 GHz

★★★★★

Apple M3 (8-GPU)
8C / 8T · 0.70 - 4.06 GHz

★★★★★