Intel Arc 140T vs Apple M4 Ultra GPU (80-core)

We compared two integrated laptop graphics cards: the Intel Arc 140T with 8 pipelines and 1024 shaders against the 4 months newer Apple 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

Key distinctions and advantages of M4 Ultra GPU (80-core) over Arc 140T
Reasons to consider the Apple M4 Ultra GPU (80-core)
  • Performs significantly better (up to 8.1x) in 3DMark Steel Nomad Lite
  • 6.7x higher maximum theoretical performance (32.3 vs 4.8 TFLOPS)
  • Manufactured using a more efficient 3 nm process technology
  • Achieves 5.1x more points in the GeekBench 6 Compute test (218K vs 42K)
  • Has 10x more shading units (10240 vs 1024)

Gaming Performance

Frame rate comparison across popular AAA titles at different resolutions

Games

FPS Table
Forza Horizon 5
53
28
21
12
-
The Witcher 3
42
33
23
12
-
Counter-Strike 2
48
33
22
10
-
Far Cry 6
37
35
24
11
-
Hogwarts Legacy
19
14
-
-
-
CoD: Modern Warfare III
31
29
21
11
-
Ghost of Tsushima
21
18
13
-
-
Cyberpunk 2077
23
19
11
-
-
Shadow of the Tomb Raider
38
36
22
12
-
Average FPS by Resolution
1080p High 35 -
1080p Ultra 27 -
1440p Ultra 18 -
4K Ultra 10 -
Margin of Error Low High

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
3199
Time Spy 3769 -
Solar Bay 14421 -
Port Royal 1966 -
Fire Strike 8568 -
Wild Life Extreme 6618 -
Night Raid 38478 -
Sources: 3DMark [1]

GeekBench 6 OpenCL

GPU test for computational tasks (image processing, photography, computer vision, and ML)
GB6 Compute Score
42502
218394
Background Blur 90 img/sec -
Face Detection 39.5 img/sec -
Horizon Detection 1.21 Gpixels/sec -
Edge Detection 1.52 Gpixels/sec -
Gaussian Blur 2.41 Gpixels/sec -
Feature Matching 0.51 Gpixels/sec -
Stereo Matching 161.8 Gpixels/sec -
Particle Physics 9155.9 FPS -
API OpenCL OpenCL
Sources: Geekbench [3]

Passmark Graphics

Videocard test that focuses on compute shaders, multi-texturing, tessellation, and other features
G3D Mark Score
G2D Mark 835 -
DirectX 11 47 FPS -
DirectX 12 30 FPS -
GPU Compute 2906 Ops/s -
Sources: PassMark [5] – 2088 samples

Blender

Rendering performance test for 3D modeling
Blender GPU
Sources: Blender [9] – 41 samples

Recent User Tests

The latest benchmark tests that have been submitted by users
Intel Arc 140T
DateBenchmarkResult
📘 2026-04-16 -> Lello75Geekbench 6 OpenCL42034
📘 2025-09-19 (JacoIsHere)Geekbench 6 OpenCL42182
Apple M4 Ultra GPU (80-core)
No benchmark results yet

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) 5224 -
Image Segmentation (HP) 10501 -
Image Super Resolution (Q) 6436 -
Face Detection (HP) 15277 -
Pose Estimation (Q) 19008 -
Text Classification (SP) 1566 -
Machine Translation (HP) 2969 -
Object Detection (SP) 6172 -
Depth Estimation (Q) 14526 -
Style Transfer (SP) 62049 -
Framework ONNX -
Backend DirectML -
Sources: Geekbench [9]

Specifications

Technical specifications of Intel Arc 140T and Apple M4 Ultra GPU (80-core)

General

Vendor Intel Apple
Build Integrated Integrated
Released January 6, 2025 May 1, 2025
Case Laptop Laptop
Purpose Generic Professional
Segment Entry-level High-end
Architecture Xe+ Apple M GPU
GPU Codename Arrow Lake iGPU Custom
Rival Equivalent - Radeon 860M - GeForce RTX 5080
Recommended CPU - Intel Core Ultra 5 235H or above - Apple M4 Ultra or above
Used in CPUs - Intel Core Ultra 5 235H
- Intel Core Ultra 7 255H
- Intel Core Ultra 7 265H
- Intel Core Ultra 9 285H
- Apple M4 Ultra
Laptop GPU ranking (#94th place)

Graphics Processing Unit

Base Clock 300 MHz 500 MHz
Boost Clock 2250-2350 MHz (configurable) 1578 MHz
Shading Units 1024 10240
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 64 640
Render Output Units (ROPs) 32 320
Compute Units (Pipelines) 8 1280
Tensor Cores 128 -
Ray-tracing Cores 8 -
L2 Cache 4MB shared -
Instructions Per Cycle 2 IPC 2 IPC

Raw Performance

Pixel Fill Rate 72-75 GPixel/s 505 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 144-150 GTexel/s 1010 GTexel/s
FLOPS (FP32)
4.6-4.8 TFLOPS
32.3 TFLOPS

Physical

Interface PCIe 4.0 x8 Custom
TGP 35 W 120 W
Manufacturing TSMC TSMC
Fabrication Process 5 nm 3 nm
Max. Temperature 110°C -

Memory

Memory Type System Shared System Shared
Memory Clock - 8533 MHz
Bus - 1024-bit
ECC - No

API

DirectX 12.2 -
Vulkan 1.3 -
OpenGL 4.6 -
OpenCL 3.0 -
CUDA No -
Ray Tracing Yes Yes
DLSS No No
DisplayPort 2.1 -

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