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Apple M4 Pro (12-CPU 16-GPU) vs MediaTek MT6591

Last updated: 2026-07-05

Table of Contents

Summary
Benchmarks
Specifications
User Reviews
Popular Comparisons

Summary

Benchmarks

Performance Overview
Average performance across multiple benchmarks

Single-core performance

Rank ?

Apple M4 Pro (12-CPU 16-GPU)

Rank ?

MediaTek MT6591

Multi-core performance

Rank ?

Apple M4 Pro (12-CPU 16-GPU)

Rank ?

MediaTek MT6591

iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)

Apple M4 Pro (16 Core)

6,410

ARM Mali-450 MP4

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

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)	MediaTek MT6591
Family	Apple M series (38)	Mediatek MT-Serie (72)
CPU group	Apple M4 (7)	MediaTek MT65xx A7 (14)
Architecture	M4	Cortex-A9
Technology	3 nm	28 nm
Segment	Notebook	Smartphone / Tablet
Socket
Predecessor	Apple M3 Pro (11-CPU 14-GPU)
Successor	Apple M5 Pro (15-CPU 16-GPU)

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

Wischen	Apple M4 Pro (12-CPU 16-GPU)	MediaTek MT6591
CPU Cores / Threads	12 / 12	6 / 6
Hyperthreading / SMT	✗	✗
Core architecture	hybrid (big.LITTLE)	normal
Core Cluster 1:	8x Donan P-Core 1.26 - 4.51 GHz	6x Cortex-A7 1.50 GHz
Core Cluster 2:	4x Donan E-Core 1.02 - 2.59 GHz
L2-Cache	36.00 MB	1.00 MB
L3-Cache
Overclocking	✗	✗

Integrated graphics (iGPU)

Wischen	Apple M4 Pro (12-CPU 16-GPU)	MediaTek MT6591
GPU name	Apple M4 Pro (16 Core)	ARM Mali-450 MP4
GPU frequency	0.39 - 1.58 GHz	0.60 - 0.60 GHz
CUs / Shader	256 / 2048	4 / 64
Raytracing	✓	✗
Max. displays	3	1
Max. GPU Memory	32 GB
Technology	3 nm	28nm
Release date	Q4/2024	2012

NPU AI performance

Wischen	Apple M4 Pro (12-CPU 16-GPU)	MediaTek MT6591
AI hardware	Apple Neural Engine
AI specifications	16 Neural cores @ 38 TOPS
NPU + CPU + iGPU

Memory & PCIe

Wischen	Apple M4 Pro (12-CPU 16-GPU)	MediaTek MT6591
Memory	LPDDR5X-8533 (273.0 GB/s)	LPDDR3 LPDDR2
Max. Memory	64 GB
Memory channels	4	1
ECC	No	No
PCIe	5.0
PCIe Bandwidth

Thermal Management

Wischen	Apple M4 Pro (12-CPU 16-GPU)	MediaTek MT6591
TDP	45 W
TDP (PL2)
TDP up
TDP down
T. junction max.	100 °C

Technical details

Wischen	Apple M4 Pro (12-CPU 16-GPU)	MediaTek MT6591
Chip design	Monolithic	Chiplet
AES-NI	✓	✗
Operating systems	macOS, iPadOS	Android
Instruction set	Armv9.2-A (64 bit)	Armv7-A (32 bit)
ISA extensions	Rosetta 2 x86-Emulation, AVX2, SME
Release date	Q4/2024	Q1/2014
Release price
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User Reviews

Your rating

Here you can rate one or both of the processors. The average rating of Apple M4 Pro (12-CPU 16-GPU) is 4.8 stars (370 ratings), while MediaTek MT6591 has received 0 stars (0 ratings).

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

★★★★★

MediaTek MT6591
6C / 6T · 1.50 GHz

★★★★★