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Apple M4 GPU (8-core) vs Adreno X1-85

Apple M4 GPU (8-core)
VS
Adreno X1-85
Apple M4 GPU (8-core)
Custom
Adreno X1-85
Adreno X1

We compared two integrated laptop graphics cards: the Apple M4 GPU (8-core) with 128 pipelines and 1024 shaders against the 1 year and 1 month older Adreno X1-85 that utilizes 6 pipelines and 1536 shaders. Here you will find complete details about specs, efficiency, performance tests, and more.

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  1. Review
  2. Differences
  3. Benchmarks
  4. AI
  5. Specs
  6. Comments

Review

General comparison of performance in games, applications, power efficiency, and other metrics
Gaming
Performance in DirectX, OpenCL, and Vulkan games
Workstation
Perf. in 3D modeling, video editing and rendering apps
Energy Efficiency
Power consumption efficiency in different scenarios
NanoReview Final Score
Overall video card score

Key differences

Key distinctions and advantages of Adreno X1-85 over M4 GPU (8-core)
Reasons to consider the Apple M4 GPU (8-core)
  • Performs significantly better (up to 67%) in 3DMark Steel Nomad Lite
  • Manufactured using a more efficient 3 nm process technology
  • Achieves 26% more points in the GeekBench 6 Compute test (30K vs 24K)
Reasons to consider the Adreno X1-85
  • 53% higher maximum theoretical performance (4.6 vs 3 TFLOPS)
  • Has 50% more shading units (1536 vs 1024)
GPU
M4 GPU (8-core)
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Adreno X1-85

Benchmarks

Graphics cards’ performance in recent benchmarking apps

3D Mark

Multiplatform graphics benchmark suite that directly correlates with performance in modern games
Steel Nomad Lite Score
M4 GPU (8-core) +67%
3462
Adreno X1-85
2067
Time Spy - 1695
Solar Bay 13969 10596
Fire Strike - 6134
Wild Life Extreme 7931 6152
Night Raid - 28868
Sources: 3DMark [1], [2]

GeekBench 6 OpenCL

GPU test for computational tasks (image processing, photography, computer vision, and ML)
GB6 Compute Score
M4 GPU (8-core) +26%
30791
Adreno X1-85
24387
Background Blur 57.4 img/sec 36.4 img/sec
Face Detection 41.3 img/sec 17.3 img/sec
Horizon Detection 1.21 Gpixels/sec 1.19 Gpixels/sec
Edge Detection 1.74 Gpixels/sec 1.3 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 1.12 Gpixels/sec 1.42 Gpixels/sec
Feature Matching 0.43 Gpixels/sec 0.3 Gpixels/sec
Stereo Matching 94.9 Gpixels/sec 72.4 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 3902.5 FPS 4692.5 FPS
API OpenCL OpenCL
Sources: Geekbench [3], [4]

Passmark Graphics

Videocard test that focuses on compute shaders, multi-texturing, tessellation, and other features
G3D Mark Score
G2D Mark - 518
DirectX 11 - 19 FPS
DirectX 12 - 10 FPS
GPU Compute - 1958 Ops/s
Sources: PassMark [5] – 7 samples

Blender

Rendering performance test for 3D modeling
Blender GPU
Sources: Blender [9] – 100 samples
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Artificial Intelligence Tests

Performance in machine learning and artificial intelligence tasks

GeekBench 6 ML

Tests throughput of AI operations in single, half, and quantized precision
GB6 ML Single Precision
GB6 ML Half Precision
GB6 ML Quantized
Image Classification (SP) - 1347
Image Segmentation (HP) - 2661
Image Super Resolution (Q) - 3084
Face Detection (HP) - 5354
Pose Estimation (Q) - 7719
Text Classification (SP) - 292
Machine Translation (HP) - 1108
Object Detection (SP) - 660
Depth Estimation (Q) - 3876
Style Transfer (SP) - 12048
Framework - ONNX
Backend - DirectML
Sources: Geekbench [9]

Specifications

Technical specifications of Apple M4 GPU (8-core) and Adreno X1-85

General

Vendor Apple Qualcomm
Build Integrated Integrated
Released October 29, 2024 October 24, 2023
Case Laptop Laptop
Purpose Professional Generic
Segment Mid-range Entry-level
Architecture Apple M GPU Adreno X1
GPU Codename Custom Adreno X1
Rival Equivalent - - Apple M4 GPU (10-Core)
Successor - Apple M5 GPU (8-Core) - Adreno X2-90
Recommended CPU - Apple M4 (8-Core) or above - Qualcomm Snapdragon X Plus (X1P-64-100) or above
Used in CPUs - Apple M4 (8-Core) - Qualcomm Snapdragon X Plus (X1P-66-100)
- Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite (X1E-78-100)
- Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite (X1E-80-100)
- Qualcomm Snapdragon X Plus (X1P-64-100)
- Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite (X1E-84-100)
Laptop GPU ranking (67th and 112th place)

Graphics Processing Unit

Base Clock 500 MHz 300 MHz
Boost Clock 1470 MHz 1200-1500 MHz (configurable)
Shading Units 1024 1536
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 64 96
Render Output Units (ROPs) 32 48
Compute Units (Pipelines) 128 6
Ray-tracing Cores - No
L1 Cache - 192KB per cluster
L2 Cache - 1MB shared
Instructions Per Cycle 2 IPC 2 IPC

Raw Performance

Pixel Fill Rate 47 GPixel/s 58-72 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 94 GTexel/s 115-144 GTexel/s
FLOPS (FP32)
M4 GPU (8-core)
3 TFLOPS
Adreno X1-85 +53%
3.7-4.6 TFLOPS

Physical

Interface Custom IGP
TGP 15 W 30 W
Manufacturing TSMC TSMC
Fabrication Process 3 nm 4 nm
Max. Temperature 100°C -

Memory

Memory Type System Shared System Shared
Memory Clock 7500 MHz -
Effective Memory Speed 15000 Mbps -
Bus 128-bit -
ECC No -
Memory Bandwidth

API

DirectX - 12.1
Vulkan - 1.3
OpenGL - 3.2
OpenCL - 3.0
CUDA - No
Ray Tracing Yes Yes
DLSS No No
DisplayPort - 1.4

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