The 9-core Apple M4 GPU is a graphics card introduced in the iPad Air with the M4 chip and offers 9 of the 10 cores. This makes 144 of the 160 SIMD EUs available. Together with the CPU, the GPU can access 12 GB of unified memory with a bandwidth of up to 120 GB/s.
Some popular video codecs can be decoded and encoded in hardware, but the selection is nowhere near as extensive as on current AMD iGPUs, let alone Intel iGPUs. However, numerous modern technologies such as ray tracing are supported.
Like the rest of the Apple M4 chip, the graphics card is manufactured using TSMC's second-generation 3 nm process, which is still state of the art in late 2024.
Apple M4 Series
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| iGPU | Integrated Graphics | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Pipelines | 9 - unified | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Memory Type | LPDDR5X-7500 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Shared Memory | yes | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Power Consumption | 4 Watt | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Man. Technology | 3 nm | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Date of Announcement | 28.10.2024 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Predecessor | M3 8-Core GPU | |||||||||||||||||||||
- Average benchmark valuesThe 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.
| low | med. | high | ultra | QHD | 4K | |
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| Genshin Impact | 58.7 | 58.4 | ||||
| PUBG Mobile | 58.9 | 58.7 | ||||
| low | med. | high | ultra | QHD | 4K | < 30 fps < 60 fps < 120 fps ≥ 120 fps | 2 | | 1 | 1 | | |
For more games that might be playable and a list of all games and graphics cards visit our Gaming List
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