iPad Pro M4 binned vs unbinned

[gsal]

Has anyone managed to find any benchmarks comparing the binned M4 to the unbinned M4?

I’m happy to save money by going with the 256GB model as I use external storage to edit videos, but I’m wondering if the £600 premium here in the UK is worth paying for the extra performance core and 8GB of RAM.

 

[klasma]

You’ll probably have to wait until later next week. Purely based on specs, a 20-30% speedup specifically for multi-core workloads (e.g. audio/image processing) seems plausible.

 

[ipaddaro]

I think that GB6 single core score will be the same (approx. 3700 if the leaks are accurate) and for multicore something around 75% as it has 3 out of 4 performance cores (i.e. approx. 10800)

GPU appears to be the same spec (so we can expect 54000 as well)

Let’s see…

 

[mario-64]

Will be interesting to see what impact the additional core has on high end iPad games like RE4 and Village.

 

[TheRealAlex]

9 Core M4 is essentially buying an 8 Core M3.

 

[Isengardtom]

Will be interesting to see what impact the additional core has on high end iPad games like RE4 and Village.

Isn’t graphics more important for this?

 

[ipaddaro]

9 Core M4 is essentially buying an 8 Core M3.

Not really, if the single cose performances are confirmed the same as the 9 core. Those really matter in daily tasks..
Also GPU has more performance

 

[okkibs]

The small iPad housing will severely limit performance due to heat beyond short-term bursts. Anyone really pushing the SoC on the iPad knows how crazy hot they get to the point the display starts dimming to prevent overheating. I don‘t see the point in additional multi-core performance, if I need a video to render for an hour I am going to have a bad time on any iPad.

 

[EugW]

Geekbench 6.3:

9-core CPU multi-core >13000
10-core CPU multi-core <15000

 

[yanksfan114]

I think that GB6 single core score will be the same (approx. 3700 if the leaks are accurate) and for multicore something around 75% as it has 3 out of 4 performance cores (i.e. approx. 10800)

GPU appears to be the same spec (so we can expect 54000 as well)

Let’s see…

I might be misremembering, but didnt Apple update their silicon a few years ago to allow both the P and E cores to be on at the same time? Wouldn't that lead to a >75% performance of the M4-4 P core variant from the M4-3 P core one?

 

[gsal]

Geekbench 6.3:

9-core CPU multi-core >13000
10-core CPU multi-core <15000

Thanks, I saw this in another thread. If that is accurate then £600 will be staying in my pocket. 😁

 

[Surfsalot]

I wouldn't be throwing it in the bin then taking it out again.

 

[ipaddaro]

I might be misremembering, but didnt Apple update their silicon a few years ago to allow both the P and E cores to be on at the same time? Wouldn't that lead to a >75% performance of the M4-4 P core variant from the M4-3 P core one?

I really don’t know… if we take GB6 as example, the multicore result generally seems to be very similar to single core multiplied to number of performance cores (3700 and 14500 for M4 10 cores with 4 PC for example).

But based on such rumors about 9 core M4 this doesn’t seem to be the case… so i really don’t know

 

[EugW]

I might be misremembering, but didnt Apple update their silicon a few years ago to allow both the P and E cores to be on at the same time? Wouldn't that lead to a >75% performance of the M4-4 P core variant from the M4-3 P core one?

Yes. Looks like with GB 6 at least, 9-core multicore is ~85% 10-core multicore.

Anyhow, that will mean my 9-core iPad Pro will be the fastest computer in my house by a large margin, as my current fastest is an M1 Mac mini. In fact, the iPad Pro will be as fast as the two next fastest computers in my house combined.

M4 iPad Pro - ~3820/13060
M1 Mac mini - ~2400/8850
iMac i5-7600 - ~1400/4140