Apple M4 Ultra GPU (80-core) vs M3 Ultra GPU (80-core)
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Apple M4 Ultra GPU (80-core)
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Apple M3 Ultra GPU (80-core)
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We performed a head-to-head comparison of the Apple M4 Ultra GPU (80-core) with 1280 pipelines and 10240 shaders against the M3 Ultra GPU (80-core) that utilizes 1280 pipelines and 10240 shaders. Here you will find complete details about specs, efficiency, performance tests, and more.
Please note that the tests on the Apple M4 Ultra GPU (80-core) are done on an engineering sample provided by our insiders. The data will be more accurate after the final version of this GPU is available.
Key differences
Reasons to consider the Apple M4 Ultra GPU (80-core)
- Performs better (up to 33%) in 3DMark Steel Nomad Lite
- Achieves 48% more points in the GeekBench 6 Compute test (218K vs 147K)
Benchmarks
Graphics cards’ performance in recent benchmarking apps3D Mark
Steel Nomad Lite Score
| Solar Bay | - | 63597 |
| Wild Life Extreme | - | 47814 |
GeekBench 6 OpenCL
GB6 Compute Score
| Background Blur | - | 204.5 img/sec |
| Face Detection | - | 126 img/sec |
| Horizon Detection | - | 6.53 Gpixels/sec |
| Edge Detection | - | 10.7 Gpixels/sec |
| Gaussian Blur | - | 9.5 Gpixels/sec |
| Feature Matching | - | 1.05 Gpixels/sec |
| Stereo Matching | - | 560.3 Gpixels/sec |
| Particle Physics | - | 25267.8 FPS |
| API | OpenCL | OpenCL |
Cinebench 2024 GPU
Cinebench 2024 GPU
Recent User Tests
Apple M4 Ultra GPU (80-core)
No benchmark results yet
Apple M3 Ultra GPU (80-core)
| Date | Benchmark | Result |
|---|---|---|
| 📘 2025-03-16 (Tyler) | GeekBench | 145706 |
| 📘 2025-03-16 (Tyler) | Cinebench 2024 | 19448 |
Artificial Intelligence Tests
Performance in machine learning and artificial intelligence tasksGeekBench 6 ML
GB6 ML Single Precision
GB6 ML Half Precision
GB6 ML Quantized
| Image Classification (SP) | - | 8094 |
| Image Segmentation (HP) | - | 24595 |
| Image Super Resolution (Q) | - | 25190 |
| Face Detection (HP) | - | 38337 |
| Pose Estimation (Q) | - | 111021 |
| Text Classification (SP) | - | 2786 |
| Machine Translation (HP) | - | 4339 |
| Object Detection (SP) | - | 7668 |
| Depth Estimation (Q) | - | 37488 |
| Style Transfer (SP) | - | 244483 |
| Framework | - | Core ML |
| Backend | - | GPU |
Specifications
Technical specifications of Apple M4 Ultra GPU (80-core) and M3 Ultra GPU (80-core)General
| Vendor | Apple | Apple |
| Build | Integrated | Integrated |
| Released | May 1, 2025 | March 5, 2025 |
| Case | Laptop | Desktop |
| Purpose | Professional | Professional |
| Segment | High-end | High-end |
| Architecture | Apple M GPU | Apple M GPU |
| GPU Codename | Custom | Custom |
| Rival Equivalent | - GeForce RTX 5080 | - GeForce RTX 5070 Ti |
| Successor | - | - Apple M4 Ultra GPU (80-core) |
| Recommended CPU | - Apple M4 Ultra or above | - Apple M3 Ultra or above |
| Used in CPUs | - Apple M4 Ultra | - Apple M3 Ultra |
Desktop GPU rating (#30th place)
Graphics Processing Unit
| Base Clock | 500 MHz | - |
| Boost Clock | 1578 MHz | 1380 MHz |
| Shading Units | 10240 | 10240 |
| Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) | 640 | 640 |
| Render Output Units (ROPs) | 320 | 320 |
| Compute Units (Pipelines) | 1280 | 1280 |
| Instructions Per Cycle | 2 IPC | 2 IPC |
Raw Performance
| Pixel Fill Rate | 505 GPixel/s | 442 GPixel/s |
| Texture Fill Rate | 1010 GTexel/s | 883 GTexel/s |
FLOPS (FP32)
Physical
| Interface | Custom | Custom |
| TGP | 120 W | 140 W |
| Manufacturing | TSMC | TSMC |
| Fabrication Process | 3 nm | 3 nm |
| Transistor Count | - | 184 billion |
| Max. Temperature | - | 100°C |
Memory
| Memory Type | System Shared | System Shared |
| Memory Clock | 8533 MHz | 6400 MHz |
| Bus | 1024-bit | 1024-bit |
| ECC | No | No |
Memory Bandwidth
API
| Ray Tracing | Yes | Yes |
| DLSS | No | No |
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