Apple M4 GPU (8-core) vs GeForce RTX 4090

[ VERDICT ] Winner: GeForce RTX 4090 (89/100)

GeForce RTX 4090 leads overall with a score of 89/100 compared to Apple M4 GPU (8-core) (32/100), offering superior measured performance and technical specifications.

Why choose Apple M4 GPU (8-core):
  • + Higher Efficiency score (96 vs 43)
Why choose GeForce RTX 4090:
  • + Higher Gaming score (93 vs 14)
Apple M4 GPU (8-core)
Apple

Apple M4 GPU (8-core)

32/100
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[ WINNER ]
GeForce RTX 4090
GeForce

GeForce RTX 4090

89/100
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Benchmark Performance Comparison

Normalized Lab Scores
Benchmark measurements and scores across compared devices
Benchmark Apple M4 GPU (8-core) GeForce RTX 4090
Efficiency 96.0 Excellent WINNER 43.0 Poor
Gaming 14.0 Poor 93.0 Excellent WINNER

Detailed Technical Specifications

3D Mark

3D Mark specifications comparison
Specification Apple M4 GPU (8-core) GeForce RTX 4090
Solar Bay 13969 187525
Wild Life Extreme 7931 85218
Fire Strike — 72432
Night Raid — 195813
Port Royal — 26127
Time Spy — 36299

API

API specifications comparison
Specification Apple M4 GPU (8-core) GeForce RTX 4090
DLSS No DLSS 3
Ray Tracing Yes Yes
CUDA — 8.9
DirectX — 12
DisplayPort — 1.4a
OpenCL — 3.0
OpenGL — 4.6
Vulkan — 1.3

GeekBench 6 OpenCL

GeekBench 6 OpenCL specifications comparison
Specification Apple M4 GPU (8-core) GeForce RTX 4090
API OpenCL OpenCL
Background Blur 57.4 img/sec 318.9 img/sec
Edge Detection 1.74 Gpixels/sec 21 Gpixels/sec
Face Detection 41.3 img/sec 222.8 img/sec
Feature Matching 0.43 Gpixels/sec 2.38 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 1.12 Gpixels/sec 23.9 Gpixels/sec
Horizon Detection 1.21 Gpixels/sec 14.2 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 3902.5 FPS 48090.4 FPS
Stereo Matching 94.9 Gpixels/sec 1950 Gpixels/sec

General

General specifications comparison
Specification Apple M4 GPU (8-core) GeForce RTX 4090
Architecture Apple M GPU Ada Lovelace
Build Integrated Discrete
Case Laptop Desktop
GPU Codename Custom AD102
Purpose Professional Gaming
Recommended CPU -Apple M4 (8-Core)or above -Intel Core i9 14900Kor above
Released October 29, 2024 September 20, 2022
Segment Mid-range High-end
Successor -Apple M5 GPU (8-Core) -GeForce RTX 5090
Used in CPUs -Apple M4 (8-Core) —
Vendor Apple Nvidia
Launch price (MSRP) — $1599

Graphics Processing Unit

Graphics Processing Unit specifications comparison
Specification Apple M4 GPU (8-core) GeForce RTX 4090
Base Clock 500 MHz 2235 MHz
Boost Clock 1470 MHz 2520 MHz
Compute Units (Pipelines) 128 128
Instructions Per Cycle 2 IPC 2 IPC
Render Output Units (ROPs) 32 176
Shading Units 1024 16384
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 64 512
L1 Cache — 128KB per cluster
L2 Cache — 72MB shared
Ray-tracing Cores — 128
Tensor Cores — 512

Memory

Memory specifications comparison
Specification Apple M4 GPU (8-core) GeForce RTX 4090
Bus 128-bit 384-bit
ECC No No
Effective Memory Speed 15000 Mbps 21000 Mbps
Memory Clock 7500 MHz 2625 MHz
Memory Type System Shared GDDR6X
Memory Size — 24 GB

Physical

Physical specifications comparison
Specification Apple M4 GPU (8-core) GeForce RTX 4090
Fabrication Process 3 nm 5 nm
Interface Custom PCIe 4.0 x16
Manufacturing TSMC TSMC
Max. Temperature 100°C —
TGP 15 W 450 W
Die Size — 609 mm²
Transistor Count — 76.3 billion
Transistor Density — 125.29 MTr/mm²

Raw Performance

Raw Performance specifications comparison
Specification Apple M4 GPU (8-core) GeForce RTX 4090
Pixel Fill Rate 47 GPixel/s 444 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 94 GTexel/s 1290 GTexel/s

Games

Games specifications comparison
Specification Apple M4 GPU (8-core) GeForce RTX 4090
1080p High — 255
1080p Ultra — 217
1440p Ultra — 177
4K Ultra — 106
CoD: Modern Warfare III — 266263219151
Counter-Strike 2 — 33923818890
Cyberpunk 2077 — 22620814366
Far Cry 6 — 203179170104
Forza Horizon 5 — 275199193155
Ghost of Tsushima — 18815213791
Hogwarts Legacy — 20016313274
Margin of Error — Low
Shadow of the Tomb Raider — 302284222118
The Witcher 3 — 292268191101

GeekBench 6 ML

GeekBench 6 ML specifications comparison
Specification Apple M4 GPU (8-core) GeForce RTX 4090
Backend — DirectML
Depth Estimation (Q) — 75599
Face Detection (HP) — 78111
Framework — ONNX
Image Classification (SP) — 15600
Image Segmentation (HP) — 36657
Image Super Resolution (Q) — 48114
Machine Translation (HP) — 6349
Object Detection (SP) — 21186
Pose Estimation (Q) — 289639
Style Transfer (SP) — 601428
Text Classification (SP) — 4074

Passmark Graphics

Passmark Graphics specifications comparison
Specification Apple M4 GPU (8-core) GeForce RTX 4090
DirectX 11 — 323 FPS
DirectX 12 — 151 FPS
G2D Mark — 1303
GPU Compute — 26022 Ops/s

Recent User Tests

Recent User Tests specifications comparison
Specification Apple M4 GPU (8-core) GeForce RTX 4090
Date — Benchmark
📘 2026-04-03(afroman420IU) — Cinebench 2024

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