They are equipped with 8GB or 16GB of RAM, depending on how much storage you pay for. But they get different versions of the M4 chipset too.
Apple introduced the new M4 chip yesterday and if you read the fine print, you will see that there are actually two binned versions of that chip. Not too unusual, except that for the first time both bins are available on the same device.
First, the chip. The CPU inside the Apple M4 has 4 performance cores and 6 efficiency cores, except on some iPad Pro (2024) models, one of the performance cores is disabled. For those unfamiliar with binning, it’s the oldest trick in the book – you can increase yields by picking chips with a non-fatal defect and selling them as a lower tier.
Take the vanilla iPhone 13 as an example – it had an A15 chipset with 4 GPU cores, while the iPhone 13 Pro had an A15 with 5 GPU cores.
