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Fomalhaut

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It looks like all of the pre-release reviewers were sent unbinned 14-core CPU / 20-core GPU M4 Pro machines.

Do we have any estimates of the performance difference for the entry level binned M4 Pro SoC with 8p+4e / 16 GPU?

Single core would be almost identical, and from past experience I would expect the binned SoC to be a little better than the proportional difference in P-cores and GPU cores.

Does a GB6 multi core score of 19500-20000 sound about right? (vs ~22,000 for the unbinned chip)

Metal score for 16-core GPU might be 85,000-90,000 compared to ~111,000 for the 20-core GPU.

I’m looking for a desktop replacement for an M1 Max with 24-core GPU (which scores about 95,000 in GB6 Metal), so the binned M4 Pro performance looks quite similar in GPU, and a lot better in CPU.
 

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[UPDATE]

I’ve just seen the first GeekBench results showing the 12-core M4 Pro and they look pretty good!

>20,000 multicore (https://browser.geekbench.com/v6/cpu/8707349)

~96,500 for Metal (https://browser.geekbench.com/v6/compute/3077458)


The GPU scores actually beats my M1 Max, which is impressive with only 2/3 the number of cores

I’m now seeing the M4 Pro Mini as a very viable alternative to to a Mac Studio for media creation including moderately complex video editing. Thermal performance and fan noise may be worse than a Mac Studio in some cases, but probably fine for the majority of my use cases.
 
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