Apple's upcoming M4 Ultra chip could potentially redefine performance standards, with its graphics capabilities rumored to surpass NVIDIA's RTX 4090, currently the leading consumer graphics card on the market.
Vadim Yuryev from the YouTube channel Max Tech anticipates that the M4 Ultra will achieve a score exceeding 330,000 points in the Geekbench 6 OpenCL test, compared to the RTX 4090's existing score of 317,162, as reported by Wccftech.
Yuryev highlighted a 78% increase in GPU performance from the M4 Pro to the M4 Max, and predicts an even more significant 70% performance boost with the M4 Ultra, resulting in an estimated score of around 330,000.
His forecast is grounded in the prospect of the M4 Ultra having double the GPU cores of the M4 Max. This assumption appears plausible, especially in relation to APIs like OpenCL and Vulkan, which are adept at optimizing 3D graphics rendering across different GPU architectures.
Based on previous insights, the M4 Ultra is expected to feature an impressive 32-core CPU alongside an 80-core GPU, effectively doubling the specifications of the current M4 Max chip.
It's crucial to note that these projections are speculative, rooted in M4 Max test outcomes rather than definitive official data.
Currently, many popular games lack support for the Mac platform. Nonetheless, Apple is diligently expanding the Mac gaming library. The recent announcement of Cyberpunk 2077 making its way to the Mac platform reflects Apple's belief in the gaming prowess of the M4 chip, particularly the M4 Ultra.