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Oliver Haslam

Apple's M4 iPad Pro set a blistering benchmarking record, and all it took was a canister of liquid nitrogen and a huge cooling block

IPad Pro with M4 chipset.

When Apple announced the new OLED iPad Pro a couple of weeks ago it brought with it a surprising spec in the form of the first M4 chip. There had been rumblings it could happen, but it was still a shock that it actually did. Benchmarks have shown that the M4 is a very capable piece of silicon and now someone has made it a record-breaker as well.

That record comes in the form of being the first chip to break the 4,000 mark in Geekbench testing, something that no other chip has managed to date. It also means that the M4 eclipses powerhouse chips like the Intel Core i9-13900KS all while running inside a tablet.

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