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Apple M4 Pro (14-CPU 20-GPU) vs Nintendo Switch

Last updated: 2026-05-03

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 (14-CPU 20-GPU)

Rank 2 - 7 %

Nintendo Switch

Multi-core performance

Rank 1 - 100 %

Apple M4 Pro (14-CPU 20-GPU)

Rank 2 - 3 %

Nintendo Switch

Geekbench 6 Single-Core
Single-core performance

14C / 14T · 4.51 GHz

3,940

8C / 8T · 1.75 GHz

270

Geekbench 6 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

14C / 14T · 3.50 GHz

22,700

8C / 8T · 1.00 GHz

702

iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)

Apple M4 Pro (20 Core)

8,013

NVIDIA Tegra X1 (Maxwell)

393

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 (14-CPU 20-GPU)	Nintendo Switch
Family	Apple M series (38)	NVIDIA Tegra (2)
CPU group	Apple M4 (7)	NVIDIA Tegra X1 (2)
Architecture	M4	Cortex-A57/-A53
Technology	3 nm	20 nm
Segment	Notebook	Notebook
Socket
Predecessor	Apple M3 Pro (12-CPU 18-GPU)
Successor	Apple M5 Pro (18-CPU 20-GPU)

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

Wischen	Apple M4 Pro (14-CPU 20-GPU)	Nintendo Switch
CPU Cores / Threads	14 / 14	8 / 8
Hyperthreading / SMT	✗	✗
Core architecture	hybrid (big.LITTLE)	hybrid (big.LITTLE)
Core Cluster 1:	10x Donan P-Core 1.26 - 4.51 GHz	4x Cortex-A57 1.00 - 1.75 GHz
Core Cluster 2:	4x Donan E-Core 1.02 - 2.59 GHz	4x Cortex-A53 1.00 - 1.75 GHz
L2-Cache	36.00 MB	2.50 MB
L3-Cache
Overclocking	✗	✗

Integrated graphics (iGPU)

Wischen	Apple M4 Pro (14-CPU 20-GPU)	Nintendo Switch
GPU name	Apple M4 Pro (20 Core)	NVIDIA Tegra X1 (Maxwell)
GPU frequency	0.39 - 1.58 GHz	0.30 - 0.77 GHz
CUs / Shader	320 / 2560	2 / 256
Raytracing	✓	✗
Max. displays	3	1
Max. GPU Memory	32 GB	2 GB
Technology	3 nm	20 nm
Release date	Q4/2024	Q1/2017

NPU AI performance

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

Memory & PCIe

Wischen	Apple M4 Pro (14-CPU 20-GPU)	Nintendo Switch
Memory	LPDDR5X-8533 (273.0 GB/s)	LPDDR4-3200 (25.6 GB/s)
Max. Memory	64 GB	4 GB
Memory channels	4	2
ECC	No	No
PCIe	5.0
PCIe Bandwidth

Thermal Management

Wischen	Apple M4 Pro (14-CPU 20-GPU)	Nintendo Switch
TDP	50 W	5 W
TDP (PL2)
TDP up
TDP down		5 W
T. junction max.	100 °C

Technical details

Wischen	Apple M4 Pro (14-CPU 20-GPU)	Nintendo Switch
Chip design	Monolithic	Chiplet
AES-NI	✓	✗
Operating systems	macOS, iPadOS
Instruction set	Armv9.2-A (64 bit)	Armv8-A (64 bit)
ISA extensions	Rosetta 2 x86-Emulation, AVX2, SME
Release date	Q4/2024	Q1/2017
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 M4 Pro (14-CPU 20-GPU) is 4.8 stars (457 ratings), while Nintendo Switch has received 3.7 stars (79 ratings).

Click on the stars to rate one or both processors.

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

★★★★★

Nintendo Switch
8C / 8T · 1.00 - 1.75 GHz

★★★★★