HWBench

Apple M4 (10-core GPU, 120 GB/s) vs Microchip PolarFire SoC Video Kit (VectorBlox CoreVectorBlox)

Apple Mac mini (M4, 2024), small silver aluminium desktop, front view
Apple Mac mini (M4, 2024) — the M4 Pro model shares this enclosure. Photo: Seasider53, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

Apple M4 (10-core GPU, 120 GB/s) is faster in all 4 like-for-like comparisons (largest gap: instance segmentation, 13.88×).

Apple M4 (10-core GPU, 120 GB/s)Microchip PolarFire SoC Video Kit (VectorBlox CoreVectorBlox)
Best object detection357 FPS B
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66.21 FPS D
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Powern/an/a
Perf / Wn/an/a
Pricen/an/a
Workloads with data6 of 75 of 7

Best published object detection result per platform (may be from different like-for-like groups — see data). n/a = not published; never estimated.

Show data — all workloads, sources and like-for-like groups

object detection

✓ Like-for-like: model-size class nano (YOLO-n), batch 1. Model, precision and stack may still differ.
PlatformResultModel · precision · stackGradePowerSource
Apple M4 (10-core GPU, 120 GB/s)357 FPS
latency_e2e · b=1
YOLO26n
FP16 · Ultralytics 8.4.168 Core AI (coreai-torch 0.4.3), macOS 27.0 · nano (YOLO-n)
Bunknown power n/a
no power published
Ultralytics documentation: Apple Core AI integration benchmark
2026-10-01 (page last edited)
Microchip PolarFire SoC Video Kit (VectorBlox CoreVectorBlox)66.21 FPS
inference_time · b=1
yolov5n_512x288
INT8 (VNNX) · VectorBlox SDK (VNNX), no compression · nano (YOLO-n)
Dunknown power n/a
no power published
Microchip VectorBlox SDK tutorial metrics
2026-09-11 (page last edited)

instance segmentation

✓ Like-for-like: model-size class nano (YOLO-n), batch 1. Model, precision and stack may still differ.
PlatformResultModel · precision · stackGradePowerSource
Apple M4 (10-core GPU, 120 GB/s)196 FPS
latency_e2e · b=1
YOLO26n-seg
FP16 · Ultralytics 8.4.168 Core AI (coreai-torch 0.4.3), macOS 27.0 · nano (YOLO-n)
Bunknown power n/a
no power published
Ultralytics documentation: Apple Core AI integration benchmark
2026-10-01 (page last edited)
Microchip PolarFire SoC Video Kit (VectorBlox CoreVectorBlox)14.13 FPS
inference_time · b=1
yolov8n-seg
INT8 (VNNX) · VectorBlox SDK (VNNX), no compression · nano (YOLO-n)
Dunknown power n/a
no power published
Microchip VectorBlox SDK tutorial metrics
2026-09-11 (page last edited)

pose estimation

✓ Like-for-like: model-size class nano (YOLO-n), batch 1. Model, precision and stack may still differ.
PlatformResultModel · precision · stackGradePowerSource
Apple M4 (10-core GPU, 120 GB/s)370 FPS
latency_e2e · b=1
YOLO26n-pose
FP16 · Ultralytics 8.4.168 Core AI (coreai-torch 0.4.3), macOS 27.0 · nano (YOLO-n)
Bunknown power n/a
no power published
Ultralytics documentation: Apple Core AI integration benchmark
2026-10-01 (page last edited)
Microchip PolarFire SoC Video Kit (VectorBlox CoreVectorBlox)64.49 FPS
inference_time · b=1
yolov8n_pose_50s_25p_512x288_split
INT8 (VNNX) · VectorBlox SDK (VNNX), unstructured compression · nano (YOLO-n)
Dunknown power n/a
no power published
Microchip VectorBlox SDK tutorial metrics
2026-09-11 (page last edited)

image classification

✓ Like-for-like: model-size class nano (YOLO-n), batch 1. Model, precision and stack may still differ.
PlatformResultModel · precision · stackGradePowerSource
Apple M4 (10-core GPU, 120 GB/s)417 FPS
latency_e2e · b=1
YOLO26n-cls
FP16 · Ultralytics 8.4.168 Core AI (coreai-torch 0.4.3), macOS 27.0 · nano (YOLO-n)
Bunknown power n/a
no power published
Ultralytics documentation: Apple Core AI integration benchmark
2026-10-01 (page last edited)
Microchip PolarFire SoC Video Kit (VectorBlox CoreVectorBlox)244 FPS
inference_time · b=1
yolov8n-cls
INT8 (VNNX) · VectorBlox SDK (VNNX), no compression · nano (YOLO-n)
Dunknown power n/a
no power published
Microchip VectorBlox SDK tutorial metrics
2026-09-11 (page last edited)

semantic segmentation

⚠ MIXED COMPARISON — not like-for-like. Baseline nano (YOLO-n) at batch 1. Differs: model-size class unknown vs nano (YOLO-n).
PlatformResultModel · precision · stackGradePowerSource
Apple M4 (10-core GPU, 120 GB/s)53.48 FPS
latency_e2e · b=1
YOLO26n-sem
FP16 · Ultralytics 8.4.168 Core AI (coreai-torch 0.4.3), macOS 27.0 · nano (YOLO-n)
Bunknown power n/a
no power published
Ultralytics documentation: Apple Core AI integration benchmark
2026-10-01 (page last edited)
Microchip PolarFire SoC Video Kit (VectorBlox CoreVectorBlox)
MIXED: model-size class unknown vs nano (YOLO-n)
13.13 FPS
inference_time · b=1
FFNet-122NS-LowRes_512x288
INT8 (VNNX) · VectorBlox SDK (VNNX), no compression · unknown
Dunknown power n/a
no power published
Microchip VectorBlox SDK tutorial metrics
2026-09-11 (page last edited)

No shared like-for-like group exists for this pair.

speech-to-text

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No published speech-to-text results for Apple M4 (10-core GPU, 120 GB/s) or Microchip PolarFire SoC Video Kit (VectorBlox CoreVectorBlox) yet.
We only show cited public figures — nothing is estimated to fill gaps. Requests tell us what to source or test next.

LLM generation

Only Apple M4 (10-core GPU, 120 GB/s) has published LLM generation results.

PlatformResultModel · precision · stackGradePowerSource
Apple M4 (10-core GPU, 120 GB/s)24.11 tok/s
tg128 · b=1
Llama 2 7B
Q4_0 · llama.cpp Metal (commit 8e672ef) · LLM 5–14B
Cunknown power n/a
no power published
llama.cpp discussion #4167 scoreboard (via GitHub API)
2026-10-01 (page last edited)

Microchip PolarFire SoC Video Kit (VectorBlox CoreVectorBlox):

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No published LLM generation results for Microchip PolarFire SoC Video Kit (VectorBlox CoreVectorBlox) or Apple M4 (10-core GPU, 120 GB/s) yet.
We only show cited public figures — nothing is estimated to fill gaps. Requests tell us what to source or test next.

How to read these numbers
Every number is labelled. Confidence: A MLPerf closed, audited · B documented third-party method · C community / review · D vendor-published, not independently verified · E estimate. Power basis: measured with the result · spec vendor spec/envelope · power n/a not published.

Machine-readable: /find.json (see llms.txt); full tables are in “Show data”. Confidence grades: A audited MLPerf closed · B documented third-party · C community · D vendor-published · E estimate. Unknown values are shown as unknown, never estimated. Generated 2026-10-16 from public sources.