The M4 Pro beating the M2 Ultra is impressive because the Mac mini housing the former starts at $1,599, while the Mac Studio housing the latter is a staggering $3,999. In other words, Apple is offering nearly the same level of performance from a very recent high-end desktop computer in a much smaller device that costs just over half as much.

Apple's new M4 Pro and M4 Max chips are impressively fast in terms of CPU performance, topping the M2 Ultra, but what about graphics

The M4 Pro outperforms the M2 Ultra in single-core and multi-core tests. I said earlier that the M4 Max chip, currently exclusive to the 2024 MacBook Pro models, will be the only Apple chip to top the M4 Pro. That was always going to be the case.