Intel Arc B370 vs Apple A18 Pro GPU

We compared two integrated laptop GPUs: the Intel Arc B370 with 10 pipelines and 1280 shaders against the 1 year and 4 months older Apple A18 Pro GPU that utilizes 128 pipelines and 768 shaders. Here you will find complete details about specs, efficiency, performance tests, and more.

Review

General comparison of performance in games, applications, power efficiency, and other metrics
Gaming
Performance in DirectX, OpenCL, and Vulkan games
Workstation
Perf. in 3D modeling, video editing and rendering apps
AI/ML
Capabilities for machine learning and AI-related tasks
Energy Efficiency
Power consumption efficiency in different scenarios
NanoReview Final Score
Overall video card score

Key differences

Key distinctions and advantages of A18 Pro GPU over Arc B370
Reasons to consider the Intel Arc B370
  • Performs significantly better (up to 2.8x) in 3DMark Steel Nomad Lite
  • 2.7x higher maximum theoretical performance (6.1 vs 2.3 TFLOPS)
  • Achieves 55% more points in the GeekBench 6 Compute test (48K vs 31K)
  • Has 67% more shading units (1280 vs 768)

Gaming Performance

Frame rate comparison across popular AAA titles at different resolutions

Games

FPS Table
Forza Horizon 5
71
41
32
18
-
The Witcher 3
65
55
39
19
-
Counter-Strike 2
85
62
41
19
-
Far Cry 6
56
50
36
17
-
Hogwarts Legacy
31
22
17
9
-
CoD: Modern Warfare III
36
32
24
14
-
Ghost of Tsushima
35
27
21
11
-
Cyberpunk 2077
38
32
20
-
-
Shadow of the Tomb Raider
61
50
34
20
-
Average FPS by Resolution
1080p High 53 -
1080p Ultra 41 -
1440p Ultra 29 -
4K Ultra 15 -
Margin of Error Low Low

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
Arc B370 +175%
4941
Time Spy 6028 -
Solar Bay 23177 7365
Port Royal 3498 -
Fire Strike 15198 -
Wild Life Extreme 11657 3949
Night Raid 69941 -
Sources: 3DMark [1], [2]

GeekBench 6 GPU Compute

GPU test for computational tasks (image processing, photography, computer vision, and ML)
GB6 Compute Score
Arc B370 +55%
48273
31229
Background Blur 117.4 img/sec 57.1 img/sec
Face Detection 60.6 img/sec 91.4 img/sec
Horizon Detection 1.39 Gpixels/sec 0.92 Gpixels/sec
Edge Detection 1.95 Gpixels/sec 1.21 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 2.45 Gpixels/sec 1.5 Gpixels/sec
Feature Matching 0.66 Gpixels/sec 0.45 Gpixels/sec
Stereo Matching 144.8 Gpixels/sec 84.2 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 7272.6 FPS 3061 FPS
API OpenCL Metal
Sources: Geekbench [3], [4]

Passmark Graphics

Videocard test that focuses on compute shaders, multi-texturing, tessellation, and other features
G3D Mark Score
G2D Mark 832 -
DirectX 11 65 FPS -
DirectX 12 45 FPS -
GPU Compute 3369 Ops/s -
Sources: PassMark [5] – 48 samples

Blender

Rendering performance test for 3D modeling
Blender GPU
1289.45
Sources: Blender [9] – 5 samples

Recent User Tests

The latest benchmark tests that have been submitted by users
Intel Arc B370
No benchmark results yet
Apple A18 Pro GPU
DateBenchmarkResult
📘 2026-10-03 -> RennsportGeekbench 7 OpenCL18863
📘 2026-04-24 -> RennsportGeekbench 6 OpenCL19670

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
Arc B370 +55%
10834
GB6 ML Half Precision
Arc B370 +147%
20482
GB6 ML Quantized
Arc B370 +2%
7349
Image Classification (SP) 5389 3264
Image Segmentation (HP) 18899 4550
Image Super Resolution (Q) 8326 6705
Face Detection (HP) 25377 11770
Pose Estimation (Q) 16174 15548
Text Classification (SP) 1763 3678
Machine Translation (HP) 4140 5678
Object Detection (SP) 7138 3360
Depth Estimation (Q) 20034 13468
Style Transfer (SP) 84880 31541
Framework ONNX Core ML
Backend DirectML GPU
Sources: Geekbench [9], [10]
Results were compared using different ML frameworks

Specifications

Technical specifications of Intel Arc B370 and Apple A18 Pro GPU

General

Vendor Intel Apple
Build Integrated Integrated
Released January 5, 2026 September 9, 2024
Case Laptop Laptop
Purpose Generic Generic
Segment Mid-range Mid-range
Architecture Celestial Apple M GPU
GPU Codename Panther Lake Custom
Recommended CPU - Intel Core Ultra 7 356H or above - Apple A18 Pro (MacBook) or above
Used in CPUs - Intel Core Ultra 5 338H - Apple A18 Pro (MacBook)
Laptop GPU ranking (72nd and 94th place)

Graphics Processing Unit

Base Clock 300 MHz -
Boost Clock 2400 MHz 1490 MHz
Shading Units 1280 768
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 40 40
Render Output Units (ROPs) 20 -
Compute Units (Pipelines) 10 128
Tensor Cores 80 -
Ray-tracing Cores 10 -
L1 Cache 64KB per cluster -
L2 Cache 16MB shared -
Instructions Per Cycle 2 IPC 2 IPC

Raw Performance

Pixel Fill Rate 48 GPixel/s -
Texture Fill Rate 96 GTexel/s 60 GTexel/s
FLOPS (FP32)
Arc B370 +165%
6.1 TFLOPS
2.3 TFLOPS

Physical

Interface IGP Custom
TGP 25 W -
Manufacturing TSMC TSMC
Fabrication Process 3 nm 3 nm
Max. Temperature 100°C -

Memory

Memory Type System Shared System Shared
Memory Clock - 7500 MHz
Bus - 128-bit
ECC No No

API

DirectX 12.1 -
Vulkan 1.4 -
OpenGL 4.6 -
OpenCL 3.0 -
CUDA No -
Ray Tracing Yes Yes
DLSS No No
DisplayPort 2.1 -

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