Apple M3 Ultra vs Apple M4 — Specs & Performance Compared

Side-by-side comparison of 2 CPU parts: Apple M3 Ultra vs Apple M4. Release years: 2024, 2025. Specs, synthetic benchmarks, AI inference tok/s, and Amazon availability — click into any column header for the per-SKU benchmark page.

*Price sourced from Amazon.com. Last updated 2026-05-27. Price and availability subject to change.

Synthetic benchmarks

Higher is better. Per-row scores come from public benchmark databases (PassMark, TechPowerUp, Geekbench, Cinebench). Empty cells mean we don't yet have that benchmark on file for the SKU.

BenchmarkApple M3 UltraApple M4
Geekbench 6 Metal (GPU) 259,668 points
Geekbench 6 Multi-Core 27,759 points
Geekbench 6 Single-Core 3,201 points
PassMark CPU Mark 72,769 pts22,203 pts
PassMark CPU Mark Single Thread 5,048 points
PassMark Single Thread 5,048 pts4,476 pts

AI inference (tokens/sec)

Top community-reported tokens-per-second results for popular LLMs. See the per-SKU benchmark page for the full set including quantization, prompt length, and source citations.

Apple M3 Ultra

  • deepseekr1:32b: 100.0 tok/s
  • qwen3:235b: 31.9 tok/s
  • qwen3:0.6b: 31.0 tok/s

All Apple M3 Ultra AI benchmarks →

Apple M4

  • qwen3:30b: 850.0 tok/s
  • deepseekr1:8b: 845.0 tok/s
  • qwen3:0.6b: 658.0 tok/s

All Apple M4 AI benchmarks →

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