Watch out, Nvidia – new benchmarks suggest Apple M4 Ultra could beat the mighty RTX 4090

• A new benchmark for the M4 Max suggests the M4 Ultra could surpass the RTX 4090
• This could strengthen Apple’s position within the gaming market
• Cyberpunk 2077 is a strong indication of the M4 family’s power and performance

Apple’s lineup of M4 chips is expected to significantly enhance performance across all Macs, and the M4 Ultra could take the lead by a landslide – as new rumors suggest it could even outperform the RTX 4090 GPU – the most powerful consumer graphics card in the world.

As noted by Wccftech, this comes from Yadim Yuryev (from Max Tech on YouTube), who shares his expectation of the M4 Ultra scoring ‘330,000’ on the Geekbench 6 test using the OpenCL API. This beats the RTX 4090’s current OpenCL score of 317,379, with the M4 Max sitting at 192,812.

Based on rumors of the M4 Ultra doubling the M4 Max’s GPU cores, Yuryev’s projection appears plausible, at least for both Vulkan and OpenCL APIs which are responsible for 3D graphics rendering allowing developers to optimize games for different GPU hardware. He claims ‘the GPU scaling from the leaked M4 Pro score to M4 Max is 78% higher performance’, with a safe bet of the M4 Ultra maintaining ‘worse scaling at 70% higher performance’ with the estimated 330,000 score.

This could place the M4 Ultra above Nvidia’s flagship GPU if accurate, but it’s important to note that this wouldn’t be across the board – this is an early benchmark test, after all, and the M4 Ultra hasn’t even been announced by Apple, so this performance claim is based on extrapolating M4 Max results, which obviously isn’t an exact science.

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