Intel Arc 140T vs Apple M5 GPU (8-Core)
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Intel Arc 140T
Arrow Lake iGPU
Apple M5 GPU (8-Core)
Custom
We compared two integrated laptop graphics cards: the Intel Arc 140T with 8 pipelines and 1024 shaders against the 1 year and 2 months newer Apple M5 GPU (8-Core) that utilizes 128 pipelines and 1024 shaders. Here you will find complete details about specs, efficiency, performance tests, and more.
Please note that the tests on the Apple M5 GPU (8-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 Intel Arc 140T
- 45% higher maximum theoretical performance (4.8 vs 3.3 TFLOPS)
Reasons to consider the Apple M5 GPU (8-Core)
- Performs better (up to 39%) in 3DMark Steel Nomad Lite
- Manufactured using a more efficient 3 nm process technology
Gaming Performance
Frame rate comparison across popular AAA titles at different resolutionsGames
| Forza Horizon 5 | 53 28 21 12 |
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| The Witcher 3 | 42 33 23 12 |
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| Counter-Strike 2 | 48 33 22 10 |
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| Far Cry 6 | 37 35 24 11 |
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| Hogwarts Legacy | 19 14 - - |
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| CoD: Modern Warfare III | 31 29 21 11 |
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| Ghost of Tsushima | 21 18 13 - |
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| Cyberpunk 2077 | 23 19 11 - |
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| Shadow of the Tomb Raider | 38 36 22 12 |
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| 1080p High | 35 | - |
| 1080p Ultra | 27 | - |
| 1440p Ultra | 18 | - |
| 4K Ultra | 10 | - |
| Margin of Error | Low | Low |
Benchmarks
Graphics cards’ performance in recent benchmarking apps3D Mark
Steel Nomad Lite Score
| Time Spy | 3769 | - |
| Solar Bay | 14421 | 19617 |
| Port Royal | 1966 | - |
| Fire Strike | 8568 | - |
| Wild Life Extreme | 6618 | 9804 |
| Night Raid | 38478 | - |
GeekBench 6 GPU Compute
GB6 Compute Score
| 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 | - |
Passmark Graphics
G3D Mark Score
| G2D Mark | 835 | - |
| DirectX 11 | 47 FPS | - |
| DirectX 12 | 30 FPS | - |
| GPU Compute | 2906 Ops/s | - |
Blender
Blender GPU
Recent User Tests
Intel Arc 140T
| Date | Benchmark | Result |
|---|---|---|
| 📘 2026-04-16 -> Lello75 | Geekbench 6 OpenCL | 42034 |
| 📘 2025-09-19 (JacoIsHere) | Geekbench 6 OpenCL | 42182 |
Apple M5 GPU (8-Core)
| Date | Benchmark | Result |
|---|---|---|
| 📘 2026-06-08 (h) | Geekbench 6 OpenCL | 40417 |
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) | 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 | - |
Specifications
Technical specifications of Intel Arc 140T and Apple M5 GPU (8-Core)General
| Vendor | Intel | Apple |
| Build | Integrated | Integrated |
| Released | January 6, 2025 | March 3, 2026 |
| Case | Laptop | Laptop |
| Purpose | Generic | Professional |
| Segment | Entry-level | Mid-range |
| Architecture | Xe+ | Apple M GPU |
| GPU Codename | Arrow Lake iGPU | Custom |
| Rival Equivalent | - Radeon 860M | - |
| Recommended CPU | - Intel Core Ultra 5 235H or above | - Apple M5 (8-сore GPU) 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 M5 (8-сore GPU) |
Laptop GPU ranking (#93rd place)
Graphics Processing Unit
| Base Clock | 300 MHz | - |
| Boost Clock | 2250-2350 MHz (configurable) | 1620 MHz |
| Shading Units | 1024 | 1024 |
| Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) | 64 | 64 |
| Render Output Units (ROPs) | 32 | 32 |
| Compute Units (Pipelines) | 8 | 128 |
| 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 | 52 GPixel/s |
| Texture Fill Rate | 144-150 GTexel/s | 104 GTexel/s |
FLOPS (FP32)
Physical
| Interface | PCIe 4.0 x8 | Custom |
| TGP | 35 W | - |
| Manufacturing | TSMC | TSMC |
| Fabrication Process | 5 nm | 3 nm |
| Transistor Count | - | 28 billion |
| Max. Temperature | 110°C | 100°C |
Memory
| Memory Type | System Shared | System Shared |
| Memory Clock | - | 9600 MHz |
| Bus | - | 128-bit |
| ECC | - | No |
Memory Bandwidth
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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