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Nintendo Switch vs Apple M4 Pro (12-CPU 16-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 2 - 7 %

Nintendo Switch

Rank 1 - 100 %

Apple M4 Pro (12-CPU 16-GPU)

Multi-core performance

Rank 2 - 4 %

Nintendo Switch

Rank 1 - 100 %

Apple M4 Pro (12-CPU 16-GPU)

Geekbench 6 Single-Core
Single-core performance

8C / 8T · 1.75 GHz

270

12C / 12T · 4.51 GHz

3,940

Geekbench 6 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

8C / 8T · 1.00 GHz

702

12C / 12T · 3.60 GHz

20,124

iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)

NVIDIA Tegra X1 (Maxwell)

393

Apple M4 Pro (16 Core)

6,410

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	Nintendo Switch	Apple M4 Pro (12-CPU 16-GPU)
Family	NVIDIA Tegra (2)	Apple M series (38)
CPU group	NVIDIA Tegra X1 (2)	Apple M4 (7)
Architecture	Cortex-A57/-A53	M4
Technology	20 nm	3 nm
Segment	Notebook	Notebook
Socket
Predecessor		Apple M3 Pro (11-CPU 14-GPU)
Successor		Apple M5 Pro (15-CPU 16-GPU)

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

Wischen	Nintendo Switch	Apple M4 Pro (12-CPU 16-GPU)
CPU Cores / Threads	8 / 8	12 / 12
Hyperthreading / SMT	✗	✗
Core architecture	hybrid (big.LITTLE)	hybrid (big.LITTLE)
Core Cluster 1:	4x Cortex-A57 1.00 - 1.75 GHz	8x Donan P-Core 1.26 - 4.51 GHz
Core Cluster 2:	4x Cortex-A53 1.00 - 1.75 GHz	4x Donan E-Core 1.02 - 2.59 GHz
L2-Cache	2.50 MB	36.00 MB
L3-Cache
Overclocking	✗	✗

Integrated graphics (iGPU)

Wischen	Nintendo Switch	Apple M4 Pro (12-CPU 16-GPU)
GPU name	NVIDIA Tegra X1 (Maxwell)	Apple M4 Pro (16 Core)
GPU frequency	0.30 - 0.77 GHz	0.39 - 1.58 GHz
CUs / Shader	2 / 256	256 / 2048
Raytracing	✗	✓
Max. displays	1	3
Max. GPU Memory	2 GB	32 GB
Technology	20 nm	3 nm
Release date	Q1/2017	Q4/2024

NPU AI performance

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

Memory & PCIe

Wischen	Nintendo Switch	Apple M4 Pro (12-CPU 16-GPU)
Memory	LPDDR4-3200 (25.6 GB/s)	LPDDR5X-8533 (273.0 GB/s)
Max. Memory	4 GB	64 GB
Memory channels	2	4
ECC	No	No
PCIe		5.0
PCIe Bandwidth

Thermal Management

Wischen	Nintendo Switch	Apple M4 Pro (12-CPU 16-GPU)
TDP	5 W	45 W
TDP (PL2)
TDP up
TDP down	5 W
T. junction max.		100 °C

Technical details

Wischen	Nintendo Switch	Apple M4 Pro (12-CPU 16-GPU)
Chip design	Chiplet	Monolithic
AES-NI	✗	✓
Operating systems		macOS, iPadOS
Instruction set	Armv8-A (64 bit)	Armv9.2-A (64 bit)
ISA extensions		Rosetta 2 x86-Emulation, AVX2, SME
Release date	Q1/2017	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 Nintendo Switch is 3.7 stars (79 ratings), while Apple M4 Pro (12-CPU 16-GPU) has received 4.8 stars (367 ratings).

Click on the stars to rate one or both processors.

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

★★★★★

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

★★★★★