Apple M5 Ultra GPU (80-core) vs M1 Ultra GPU (64-core)
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Apple M5 Ultra GPU (80-core)
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Apple M1 Ultra GPU (64-core)
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We performed a head-to-head comparison of the Apple M5 Ultra GPU (80-core) with 1280 pipelines and 10240 shaders against the 4 years and 6 months older M1 Ultra GPU (64-core) that utilizes 1024 pipelines and 8192 shaders. Here you will find complete details about specs, efficiency, performance tests, and more.
Please note that the tests on the Apple M5 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 M5 Ultra GPU (80-core)
- Manufactured using a more efficient 3 nm process technology
- 57% higher maximum theoretical performance (33.2 vs 21.2 TFLOPS)
- Has 50% higher memory bandwidth: 1228.8 vs 819.2 GB/s
- Has 25% more shading units (10240 vs 8192)
Benchmarks
Graphics cards’ performance in recent benchmarking apps3D Mark
Steel Nomad Lite Score
| Solar Bay | - | 36712 |
| Wild Life Extreme | - | 29343 |
GeekBench 6 GPU Compute
GB6 Compute Score
| Background Blur | - | 157.3 img/sec |
| Face Detection | - | 108.7 img/sec |
| Horizon Detection | - | 5.07 Gpixels/sec |
| Edge Detection | - | 10.7 Gpixels/sec |
| Gaussian Blur | - | 6.59 Gpixels/sec |
| Feature Matching | - | 0.73 Gpixels/sec |
| Stereo Matching | - | 293.4 Gpixels/sec |
| Particle Physics | - | 14154.4 FPS |
| API | - | OpenCL |
Cinebench 2024 GPU
Cinebench 2024 GPU
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) | - | 4834 |
| Image Segmentation (HP) | - | 14458 |
| Image Super Resolution (Q) | - | 13757 |
| Face Detection (HP) | - | 23618 |
| Pose Estimation (Q) | - | 80481 |
| Text Classification (SP) | - | 2265 |
| Machine Translation (HP) | - | 1798 |
| Object Detection (SP) | - | 4975 |
| Depth Estimation (Q) | - | 25755 |
| Style Transfer (SP) | - | 135609 |
| Framework | - | Core ML |
| Backend | - | GPU |
Specifications
Technical specifications of Apple M5 Ultra GPU (80-core) and M1 Ultra GPU (64-core)General
| Vendor | Apple | Apple |
| Build | Integrated | Integrated |
| Released | August 25, 2026 | March 8, 2022 |
| Case | Desktop | Laptop |
| 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 4070 Laptop |
| Recommended CPU | - Apple M5 Ultra (36-Core) or above | - Apple M1 Ultra or above |
| Used in CPUs | - Apple M5 Ultra (36-Core) | - Apple M1 Ultra |
Laptop GPU ranking (#30th place)
Graphics Processing Unit
| Base Clock | 500 MHz | 450 MHz |
| Boost Clock | 1620 MHz | 1296 MHz |
| Shading Units | 10240 | 8192 |
| Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) | 640 | 512 |
| Render Output Units (ROPs) | 320 | 256 |
| Compute Units (Pipelines) | 1280 | 1024 |
| Instructions Per Cycle | 2 IPC | 2 IPC |
Raw Performance
| Pixel Fill Rate | 518 GPixel/s | 332 GPixel/s |
| Texture Fill Rate | 1037 GTexel/s | 664 GTexel/s |
FLOPS (FP32)
Physical
| Interface | Custom | Custom |
| TGP | - | 120 W |
| Manufacturing | TSMC | TSMC |
| Fabrication Process | 3 nm | 5 nm |
| Transistor Count | - | 92.8 billion |
| Max. Temperature | - | 94°C |
Memory
| Memory Type | System Shared | System Shared |
| Memory Clock | 9600 MHz | 6400 MHz |
| Effective Memory Speed | - | 12800 Mbps |
| Bus | 1024-bit | 1024-bit |
| ECC | No | No |
Memory Bandwidth
API
| Ray Tracing | Yes | No |
| DLSS | No | No |
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