Apple M3 Ultra vs Apple M4 Pro — Specs & Performance Compared

Verdict: The Apple M3 Ultra leads on 6 of 9 shared benchmarks (117% in Cinebench R23 multi); the Apple M4 Pro takes 3 (10% in Cinebench R23 single). On deepseekr1:32b, both reach about 100.0 tokens/s (per LocalLLaMA; per LocalLLaMA).

Side-by-side CPU comparison of the Apple M3 Ultra and the Apple M4 Pro. Released 2025 (Apple M3 Ultra), 2024 (Apple M4 Pro). Specs, synthetic benchmarks, AI inference tok/s, and Amazon availability below; each column header links to that part's benchmark page.

Apple · M3

Apple M3 Ultra

2025

Full Apple M3 Ultra benchmarks →

Apple · M4

Apple M4 Pro

2024

Full Apple M4 Pro benchmarks →

*Price sourced from Amazon.com. Price and availability subject to change.

Where to buy

A listing for each part; the current price and stock are on the retailer's page.

Synthetic benchmarks

Each row says whether a higher or a lower number is better (ranks and times are lower-is-better). Scores come from CPU-Monkey, MacRumors Forums, Notebookcheck, Tom's Hardware, GadgetVersus, MacRumors, Geekbench Browser, AppleInsider, GSMArena, Hostbor and PassMark; each row links its sources, and where they differ the cell shows their median. Empty cells mean we don't yet have that benchmark on file for the SKU.

Benchmark	Apple M3 Ultra	Apple M4 Pro
Cinebench 2024 multi (higher is better) Source: CPU-Monkey, MacRumors Forums, Notebookcheck, Tom's Hardware	3,000 points	1,713 points
Cinebench 2024 Multi-Core (higher is better) Source: Notebookcheck	3,000 points	—
Cinebench 2024 single (higher is better) Source: Notebookcheck	—	178 points
Cinebench R23 multi (higher is better) Source: CPU-Monkey, Notebookcheck, GadgetVersus	46,243 points	21,321 points
Cinebench R23 Multi (higher is better) Source: Notebookcheck	—	23,435 pts
Cinebench R23 single (higher is better) Source: Notebookcheck, GadgetVersus	2,011 points	2,213 points
Geekbench 6 Metal (GPU) (higher is better) Source: MacRumors	259,668 points	—
Geekbench 6 multi (higher is better) Source: Geekbench Browser, Notebookcheck, AppleInsider, GSMArena, MacRumors	27,749 points	22,527 points
Geekbench 6 Multi-Core (higher is better) Source: Geekbench Browser, GSMArena, Hostbor	27,759 points	22,522 pts
Geekbench 6 single (higher is better) Source: Geekbench Browser, Notebookcheck, AppleInsider, GSMArena	3,067 points	3,882 points
Geekbench 6 Single-Core (higher is better) Source: Geekbench Browser, GSMArena	3,211 points	3,878 pts
PassMark CPU Mark (higher is better) Source: PassMark	72,841 pts	38,023 pts

AI inference (tokens/sec)

Top community-reported tokens-per-second results for popular LLMs whose weights fit the card's memory, each linked to its source. See the per-SKU benchmark page for the full set including quantization and prompt length.