Apple M1 8-Core GPU
The Apple M1 GPU is an integrated graphics card offering 8 cores (1 deactivated core in the entry MacBook Air) designed by Apple and integrated in the Apple M1 SoC . According to Apple it is faster and more energy efficient as competing products (like the Tiger Lake Xe GPU ). The peak performance of the high end variant is 2.6 teraflops and thanks to the unified memory architecture it should have fast access to the RAM.
The Apple M1 is manufactured in the modern 5nm process at TSMC and should offer an excellent energy efficiency. According to internal tools, the M1 GPU uses under load approximately 10 Watt (11.5 Watt package power including the RAM).
Apple M1 Series Pipelines 8 - unified Core Speed 1278 MHz Theoretical Performance 2.6 TFLOPS FP32 Memory Type LPDDR4X-4266 Shared Memory no Power Consumption 10 Watt technology 5 nm Date of Announcement 10.11.2020
CPU in M1 8-Core GPU GPU Base Speed GPU Boost / Turbo Apple M1 8 x 2064 MHz ? MHz ? MHz
Benchmarks 3DMark - 3DMark Ice Storm Unlimited Graphics
280200 Points (32%)
Model CPU GPU RAM Value Apple Mac Mini Late 2020 (M1, 16GB) M1 M1 8-Core GPU 16 GB 280200
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3DMark - 3DMark Sling Shot (ES 3.0) Unlimited
min: 7588 avg: 10635 median: 10635 (46%) max: 13682 Points
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3DMark - 3DMark Sling Shot (ES 3.0) Unlimited Graphics
min: 35978 avg: 39365 median: 39364.5 (87%) max: 42751 Points
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3DMark - 3DMark Sling Shot Extreme (ES 3.1) Unlimited
min: 8911 avg: 9606 median: 9605.5 (48%) max: 10300 Points
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3DMark - 3DMark Sling Shot Extreme (ES 3.1) Unlimited Graphics
25707 Points (77%)
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3DMark - 3DMark Wild Life Unlimited
min: 17731 avg: 18099 median: 18177 (9%) max: 18326 Points
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3DMark - 3DMark Wild Life Extreme Unlimited
min: 4144 avg: 4696 median: 4821 (6%) max: 4997 Points
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Cinebench R15 Cinebench R15 OpenGL 64 Bit + Cinebench R15 - Cinebench R15 OpenGL 64 Bit
min: 88.1 avg: 89.1 median: 89.4 (5%) max: 89.8 fps
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Cinebench R15 OpenGL Ref. Match 64 Bit + Cinebench R15 - Cinebench R15 OpenGL Ref. Match 64 Bit
99.5 % (100%)
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GFXBench - GFXBench 5.0 Aztec Ruins High Tier Offscreen
min: 60.9 avg: 74.3 median: 78.1 (14%) max: 81.7 fps
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GFXBench - GFXBench 5.0 Aztec Ruins Normal Tier Offscreen
min: 149 avg: 196.9 median: 206 (15%) max: 216.1 fps
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GFXBench - GFXBench Car Chase Offscreen
min: 150 avg: 167.4 median: 165.1 (19%) max: 197 fps
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GFXBench 3.1 - GFXBench Manhattan ES 3.1 Offscreen
min: 216 avg: 248.2 median: 248.7 (5%) max: 275 fps
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GFXBench 3.0 - GFXBench 3.0 Manhattan Offscreen
min: 317 avg: 358.5 median: 345 (20%) max: 408 fps
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GFXBench (DX / GLBenchmark) 2.7 GFXBench T-Rex HD Offscreen C24Z16 + GFXBench (DX / GLBenchmark) 2.7 - GFXBench T-Rex HD Offscreen C24Z16
min: 557 avg: 610 median: 588 (5%) max: 670 fps
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Antutu v9 - AnTuTu v9 GPU
min: 549301 avg: 598951 median: 598951 (75%) max: 648601 Points
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Power Consumption - Witcher 3 Power Consumption *
min: 19.6 avg: 39.4 median: 39.4 (9%) max: 59.2 Watt
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0 5 10 15 20 25 30 35 40 45 50 55 60 Tooltip Apple Mac Mini Late 2020 Entry (M1, 8GB): Ø19.6 (11.9-24.9)
Apple iMac 24 M1 2021: Ø59.2 (56.8-61.6)
Power Consumption - GFXBench Aztec Ruins Normal Tier Offscreen Power Consumption 150cd *
min: 16 avg: 16.4 median: 16.5 (6%) max: 16.6 Watt
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0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 Tooltip Apple iPad Air 5 2022: Ø16 (15.7-16.2)
Apple iPad Pro 11 2021: Ø16.5 (16.2-16.6)
Apple iPad Pro 12.9 2021 A2378: Ø16.6 (16.4-16.8)
- Range of benchmark values for this graphics card
- Average benchmark values for this graphics card
* Smaller numbers mean a higher performance
Game Benchmarks The following benchmarks stem from our benchmarks of review laptops. The performance depends on the used graphics memory, clock rate, processor, system settings, drivers, and operating systems. So the results don't have to be representative for all laptops with this GPU. For detailed information on the benchmark results, click on the fps number.
0 Tooltip iPad Pro 11 2021 2.3.0: Ø60 (60-60)
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0 Tooltip iPad Air 5 2022 1.0.31: Ø59.4 (58-60)
iPad Pro 12.9 2021 A2378 1.0.22: Ø60 (60-60)
0 Tooltip iPad Air 5 2022 1.0.31: Ø59.4 (58-60)
iPad Pro 12.9 2021 A2378 1.0.22: Ø60 (60-60)
iPad Pro 12.9 2021 A2378 1.0.22: Ø60 (60-60)
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0 Tooltip iPad Air 5 2022 2.5.0: Ø58.8 (54-60)
iPad Pro 12.9 2021 A2378 1.6.0: Ø59.9 (57-60)
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0 Tooltip iPad Air 5 2022 1.61.6: Ø59.3 (56-60)
iPad Pro 11 2021 1.59.8: Ø60 (60-60)
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Additional Benchmarks
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0 Tooltip iPad Air 5 2022 1.9.0: Ø39.2 (38-40)
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0 Tooltip iPad Air 5 2022 1.9.0: Ø39.3 (38-40)
iPad Pro 11 2021 1.4.0: Ø40.9 (36-50)
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iPad Pro 11 2021 1.4.0: Ø43.9 (43-56)
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0 Tooltip iPad Air 5 2022 8.9.0: Ø58.1 (50-60)
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Class 2 Radeon PRO W6600M *
Class 3 UHD Graphics 32EUs
UHD Graphics 750
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Class 6 * Approximate position of the graphics adapter
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