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

Verdict: On qwen3:32b, both reach about 15.0 tokens/s (per LLMCheck; per LLMCheck).

Side-by-side CPU comparison of the Apple M4 Pro and the Apple M4 Pro 12 Core. Specs, synthetic benchmarks, AI inference tok/s, and Amazon availability below; each column header links to that part's benchmark page.

Apple · M4

Apple M4 Pro

2024

Full Apple M4 Pro benchmarks →

Apple

Apple M4 Pro 12 Core

Full Apple M4 Pro 12 Core 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, Notebookcheck, MacRumors Forums, Tom's Hardware, Geekbench Browser, GSMArena 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 M4 Pro	Apple M4 Pro 12 Core
Cinebench 2024 multi (higher is better) Source: CPU-Monkey, Notebookcheck, MacRumors Forums, Tom's Hardware	1,713 points	1,431 points
Cinebench 2024 single (higher is better) Source: Notebookcheck	178 points	175 points
Cinebench R23 multi (higher is better) Source: Notebookcheck, CPU-Monkey	21,321 points	19,207 points
Cinebench R23 Multi (higher is better) Source: Notebookcheck	23,435 pts	—
Cinebench R23 single (higher is better) Source: Notebookcheck, CPU-Monkey	2,213 points	2,213 points
Geekbench 6 multi (higher is better) Source: Notebookcheck, Geekbench Browser, GSMArena, CPU-Monkey	22,527 points	20,374 points
Geekbench 6 Multi-Core (higher is better) Source: Geekbench Browser	22,522 pts	—
Geekbench 6 single (higher is better) Source: Notebookcheck, Geekbench Browser, GSMArena, CPU-Monkey	3,882 points	3,861 points
Geekbench 6 Single-Core (higher is better) Source: Geekbench Browser	3,878 pts	—
PassMark CPU Mark (higher is better) Source: PassMark	38,023 pts	32,715 points
PassMark Single Thread (higher is better) Source: PassMark	4,552 pts	4,557 points
PassMark Single Thread Rating (higher is better) Source: PassMark	—	4,560 points

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.