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Apple M4 Pro (14-core)
The sweet spot of Apple silicon: 10 performance cores get within striking distance of the Max for far less money, and Thunderbolt 5 comes standard.
Pros
- Multi-core performance rivals desktop chips
- Thunderbolt 5 support
- Excellent efficiency under sustained load
- 273GB/s unified memory bandwidth
- Runs cool and quiet in Mac mini and MacBook Pro
Cons
- Capped at 64GB unified memory
- GPU is a big step down from the Max
- No user upgrades after purchase
Very good
Computed from specs & benchmarks via our public methodology.
Full specifications
Everything we track for the Apple M4 Pro (14-core)
General
- Announced
- 2024
- Process
- 3 nm
Cores & Clocks
- Cores
- 14
- Performance cores
- 10
- Efficiency cores
- 4
- Threads
- 14
- Boost clock
- 4.5 GHz
Integrated GPU
- iGPU
- Apple 20-core GPU
Memory
- Memory support
- LPDDR5X-8533
- Max memory
- 64 GB
Benchmarks
- Geekbench 6 (single)
- 3,920Top 8%
- Geekbench 6 (multi)
- 22,400Top 6%
- Cinebench R23 (single)
- 2,210Top 6%
- Cinebench R23 (multi)
- 22,600Top 16%
- PassMark
- 37,968Top 13%
Quick answers
Is the Apple M4 Pro (14-core) good in 2026?
The Apple M4 Pro (14-core) earns an Inno Score of 75.2/100 (“Very good”) based on its specs and benchmark results. The sweet spot of Apple silicon: 10 performance cores get within striking distance of the Max for far less money, and Thunderbolt 5 comes standard.
Does the Apple M4 Pro (14-core) count as "Core i7 or equivalent"?
Its PassMark CPU Mark average is 37,968 (cpubenchmark.net, retrieved Sep 26, 2026), which puts it in Tier A of our CPU tier checker: current Core i7 H / Core Ultra 7 / Ryzen 7 class and above. It is an Arm-based chip, so a requirement that asks specifically for an Intel or AMD (x86-64) processor excludes it. Requirement pages word this differently, so check the exact wording with your department.
What are the key specs of the Apple M4 Pro (14-core)?
Cores: 14 · Threads: 14 · Boost clock: 4.5 GHz
What are the closest alternatives to the Apple M4 Pro (14-core)?
Its closest rivals on InnoReviews are AMD Ryzen AI Max+ 395, Intel Core Ultra 9 290HX Plus, Apple M3 Max (16-core) — open the comparison pages for a spec-by-spec breakdown.
