Apple M5 Max GPU (32-core) vs M4 Ultra GPU (80-core)
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Apple M5 Max GPU (32-core)
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Apple M4 Ultra GPU (80-core)
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We compared two integrated laptop professional GPUs: the Apple M5 Max GPU (32-core) with 512 pipelines and 4096 shaders against the 10 months older M4 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 significantly better (up to 69%) in 3DMark Steel Nomad Lite
- 2.4x higher maximum theoretical performance (32.3 vs 13.3 TFLOPS)
- Achieves 76% more points in the GeekBench 6 Compute test (218K vs 124K)
- Has 2.5x more shading units (10240 vs 4096)
Benchmarks
Graphics cards’ performance in recent benchmarking apps3D Mark
Steel Nomad Lite Score
| Solar Bay | 69849 | - |
| Wild Life Extreme | 35790 | - |
GeekBench 6 OpenCL
GB6 Compute Score
| Background Blur | 234.8 img/sec | - |
| Face Detection | 158.1 img/sec | - |
| Horizon Detection | 4.48 Gpixels/sec | - |
| Edge Detection | 6.62 Gpixels/sec | - |
| Gaussian Blur | 7.19 Gpixels/sec | - |
| Feature Matching | 1.17 Gpixels/sec | - |
| Stereo Matching | 384.9 Gpixels/sec | - |
| Particle Physics | 17866.8 FPS | - |
| API | OpenCL | OpenCL |
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) | 10338 | - |
| Image Segmentation (HP) | 42053 | - |
| Image Super Resolution (Q) | 41729 | - |
| Face Detection (HP) | 71929 | - |
| Pose Estimation (Q) | 287035 | - |
| Text Classification (SP) | 2958 | - |
| Machine Translation (HP) | 9156 | - |
| Object Detection (SP) | 9951 | - |
| Depth Estimation (Q) | 82338 | - |
| Style Transfer (SP) | 264780 | - |
| Framework | Core ML | - |
| Backend | GPU | - |
Specifications
Technical specifications of Apple M5 Max GPU (32-core) and M4 Ultra GPU (80-core)General
| Vendor | Apple | Apple |
| Build | Integrated | Integrated |
| Released | March 3, 2026 | May 1, 2025 |
| Case | Laptop | Laptop |
| Purpose | Professional | Professional |
| Segment | Mid-range | High-end |
| Architecture | Apple M GPU | Apple M GPU |
| GPU Codename | Custom | Custom |
| Rival Equivalent | - | - GeForce RTX 5080 |
| Recommended CPU | - Apple M5 Max (32-сore GPU) or above | - Apple M4 Ultra or above |
| Used in CPUs | - Apple M5 Max (32-сore GPU) | - Apple M4 Ultra |
Laptop GPU ranking (#9th place)
Graphics Processing Unit
| Base Clock | - | 500 MHz |
| Boost Clock | 1620 MHz | 1578 MHz |
| Shading Units | 4096 | 10240 |
| Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) | 256 | 640 |
| Render Output Units (ROPs) | 128 | 320 |
| Compute Units (Pipelines) | 512 | 1280 |
| Instructions Per Cycle | 2 IPC | 2 IPC |
Raw Performance
| Pixel Fill Rate | 207 GPixel/s | 505 GPixel/s |
| Texture Fill Rate | 415 GTexel/s | 1010 GTexel/s |
FLOPS (FP32)
Physical
| Interface | Custom | Custom |
| TGP | - | 120 W |
| Manufacturing | TSMC | TSMC |
| Fabrication Process | 3 nm | 3 nm |
| Transistor Count | 28 billion | - |
| Max. Temperature | 100°C | - |
Memory
| Memory Type | System Shared | System Shared |
| Memory Clock | 9600 MHz | 8533 MHz |
| Bus | 384-bit | 1024-bit |
| ECC | No | No |
Memory Bandwidth
API
| Ray Tracing | Yes | Yes |
| DLSS | No | No |
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