Apple M1 7-Core GPU

The Apple M1 GPU is an integrated graphics card offering 7 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 with 8 cores is 2.6 teraflops, therefore the 7 core version should offer around 2.3 teraflops. 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.

Manufacturer

Apple

Apple M1 Series

M1 8-Core GPU	8 @ 1.28 GHz
M1 7-Core GPU	7 @ 1.28 GHz

Pipelines

7 - unified

Core Speed

1278 MHz

Shared Memory

technology

5 nm

Date of Announcement

10.11.2020

Benchmarks

Cinebench R15
Cinebench R15 OpenGL 64 Bit +

Cinebench R15 OpenGL Ref. Match 64 Bit +

GFXBench (DX / GLBenchmark) 2.7
GLBench 2.7 T-Rex HD Offscreen C24Z16 +

GLBench 2.7 T-Rex HD Onscreen C24Z16 +

GFXBench 3.0 - GFXBench 3.0 Manhattan Offscreen

376 fps (41%)

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GFXBench 3.0 - GFXBench 3.0 Manhattan

60.1 fps (16%)

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GFXBench - GFXBench 5.0 Aztec Ruins High Tier Onscreen

51.4 fps (33%)

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GFXBench - GFXBench 5.0 Aztec Ruins High Tier Offscreen

72.4 fps (30%)

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GFXBench - GFXBench 5.0 Aztec Ruins Normal Tier Onscreen

60.1 fps (29%)

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GFXBench - GFXBench 5.0 Aztec Ruins Normal Tier Offscreen

192 fps (33%)

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GFXBench - GFXBench Car Chase Offscreen

162 fps (37%)

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GFXBench - GFXBench Car Chase Onscreen

58.7 fps (22%)

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* 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.