Apple M4 and iPad Pro Break Performance Records when Immersed in Liquid Nitrogen

Apple M4 and iPad Pro Break Performance Records when Immersed in Liquid Nitrogen

However, for safety reasons, it is not recommended, if you happen to have a barrel of liquid nitrogen around, you can even break the single-core performance record with the M4-powered iPad Pro. 

As discovered by Notebook Check, the Chinese team used liquid nitrogen to cool the apple M4 chip for several performance tests. 

The Next_Floating_Brothers group posted its results on the Chinese platform BiliBili, a combination of YouTube, Twitch and Crunchyroll for the Chinese market.  As part of their test, the brothers cooled the back of the ipad Pro with liquid nitrogen. Nitrogen is excess, but it has a boiling point of -320 degrees Fahrenheit.  With 1TB or 2TB of storage, the ultra-thin 5.1mm iPad Pro has a full M4 chip, but it's not actively cooled. As such, Floating Brothers tests have shown that Apple is losing performance by not including fans or other active cooling methods.  For comparison, when liquid nitrogen was not poured on the back of the iPad Pro, our tests showed that the Geekbench single-core result was almost 3,700. It has already made tablets from Google, Samsung and Lenovo the best. And it will be one of the fastest chips on the market to beat Intel's Core Ultra9 and AMD's Ryzen9 chips 1. 

When cooled with liquid nitrogen, the M4 chip gained a Geekbench record of 4,001 points. On Geekbench's list of best, the next highest score is Intel Core I9-13900KS, with only 3,110 points. Even Apple's iPhone17Pro, which runs the A15 chipset, will top at 2900.

Geekbench6 tests raw performance and gives different scores for single-core and multi-core performance. In the case of M4, the score of liquid nitrogen from the floating brothers was just below or just below the test, which in fact did not do supercooled liquid.

In our test, we had a multicore score of 14,512 points. The 2 tests that Floating Brothers submitted to Geekbench were 14,905 and 13,It featured a score of 595. However, I understand that the geekbench6 test is not long enough to test the throttling.This can affect the up or down of multi-core performance.

To retire, this was a top-of-the-line, fully-spec iPad Pro. The 1TB and 2TB variants have built-in 16GB of RAM and feature a full M10 chip with a 10-core GPU and 4-core CPU. With 516GB or 256GB of storage capacity, the smaller iPad Pro only comes with 8GB of RAM and 9-core GPUs.

Most people will not notice the difference in day-to-day.

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