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Apple M4 Pro vs Apple M4 Pro 12 Core — Specs & Performance Compared

Side-by-side comparison of 2 CPU parts: Apple M4 Pro vs Apple M4 Pro 12 Core. All released in 2024. Specs, synthetic benchmarks, AI inference tok/s, and Amazon availability — click into any column header for the per-SKU benchmark page.

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Where to buy

Current in-stock pricing for each part on Amazon.

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 M4 ProApple M4 Pro 12 Core
Cinebench 2024 multi 1,729 points1,431 points
Cinebench 2024 single —175 points
Cinebench R23 multi 23,435 points19,207 points
Cinebench R23 Multi 23,435 pts—
Cinebench R23 single 2,213 points2,213 points
Geekbench 6 multi 22,669 points20,458 points
Geekbench 6 Multi-Core 22,522 pts—
Geekbench 6 single 3,925 points3,844 points
Geekbench 6 Single-Core 3,878 pts—
PassMark CPU Mark 38,018 points32,715 points
PassMark Single Thread 4,557 pts4,557 points
PassMark Single Thread Rating —4,560 points

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 M4 Pro

  • llama3:8b: 440.0 tok/s
  • deepseekr1:32b: 100.0 tok/s
  • mistral:7b: 98.0 tok/s

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Apple M4 Pro 12 Core

  • llama2:7b: 49.6 tok/s
  • qwen3:8b: 45.0 tok/s
  • llama3.1:8b: 42.0 tok/s

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