Performance and Power: a M4, but indifferent
Apple’s M4 is still well known thanks to the M4 McBook Pro, M4 IMAC, M4 Mac Money, and (to some extent due to software differences) M4 iPad Pro.
M4 added two additional performance covers to its CPU, bringing the total number of cover 10 (four p core and six e -core). The number of GPU core is still 10, which is like M2 and M3. The basic $ 999/$ 1,199 models is instead of 8 core GPUs, so note that the performance in our graphics benchmark below will be slightly lower on these models.
The big difference between this M4 and the other Max is that the air still does not include an active cooling fan. This, this usually means that they can run at full speed for a few minutes under a permanent heavy CPU or GPU load, but once the chip gets too hot to move at full speed, the performance may slow down.
Note that Apple has provided us with a 15 -inch version of the air for the test and the 13 -inch version can sneak a little more aggressively, depending on how much its hat sink improves heat.
Air M4 performs equally with many of our mild benchmarks actively cooled with the cooling version, including Gack Bench, Single Threaded Sen Bench Test, and even most of our graphics benchmarks. It is just in our hand break video encoding tests such as heavy, long -running tests that it begins to slowly slow down compared to the actively cold version of the chip. It is completely compatible with what we have seen in other Apple Silicon MacBook Aires. The type of work flow that will really challenge the wind is the one you don’t really buy MacBook Air to handle it regularly.
Compared to the old Max, the M4 CPUM is about 15 or 20 % faster in a single -core benchmark compared to the CPUM 3 and 20 or 30 % faster in the multi -core benchmark, thanks to the couple’s additional CPU cores. Improvement of GPU performance is better in some tests than others, although somewhere is special in the range of 10 to 20 percent. Apple is slowly working to double the original M1 performance, but we are not yet there – M4 board is more than 50 and 70 % compared to the M1 M1, depending on which benches you are comparing. The M1 still most days feel good for the body computing, especially if you went to 16GB of Ram, but the M4 is significantly snapper.