Intel UHD Graphics Xe (32 EU) vs Apple M4 Pro GPU (16-core)

We compared two integrated laptop graphics cards: the Intel UHD Graphics Xe (32 EU) with 32 pipelines and 256 shaders against the 2 years and 11 months newer Apple M4 Pro GPU (16-core) that utilizes 256 pipelines and 2048 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 M4 Pro GPU (16-core) over UHD Graphics Xe (32 EU)
Reasons to consider the Apple M4 Pro GPU (16-core)
  • Performs significantly better (up to 14.4x) in 3DMark Steel Nomad Lite
  • 8.1x higher maximum theoretical performance (6.5 vs 0.8 TFLOPS)
  • Manufactured using a more efficient 3 nm process technology
  • Achieves 7.1x more points in the GeekBench 6 Compute test (61K vs 8K)
  • Has 8x more shading units (2048 vs 256)

Gaming Performance

Frame rate comparison across popular AAA titles at different resolutions

Games

FPS Table
Forza Horizon 5
14
-
-
-
-
Counter-Strike 2
13
-
-
-
-
Far Cry 6
-
-
-
-
-
Ghost of Tsushima
-
-
-
-
-
Average FPS by Resolution
1080p High - -
1080p Ultra - -
1440p Ultra - -
4K Ultra - -
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
Time Spy 670 -
Solar Bay - 28734
Fire Strike 2365 -
Wild Life Extreme 1619 16471
Night Raid 9688 -
Sources: 3DMark [1], [2]

GeekBench 6 OpenCL

GPU test for computational tasks (image processing, photography, computer vision, and ML)
GB6 Compute Score
Background Blur 18.6 img/sec 106 img/sec
Face Detection 12.1 img/sec 73.1 img/sec
Horizon Detection 0.34 Gpixels/sec 2.59 Gpixels/sec
Edge Detection 0.53 Gpixels/sec 3.8 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 0.32 Gpixels/sec 2.4 Gpixels/sec
Feature Matching 0.1 Gpixels/sec 0.73 Gpixels/sec
Stereo Matching 20.8 Gpixels/sec 198.6 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 1203.8 FPS 8166.3 FPS
API OpenCL OpenCL
Sources: Geekbench [3], [4]

Cinebench 2024 GPU

Hardware benchmark using Maxon's Cinema 4D rendering engine
Cinebench 2024 GPU

Blender

Rendering performance test for 3D modeling
Sources: Blender [9] – 285 samples

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) 765 7548
Image Segmentation (HP) 1214 15108
Image Super Resolution (Q) 981 20789
Face Detection (HP) 1893 28665
Pose Estimation (Q) 3752 57124
Text Classification (SP) 847 2888
Machine Translation (HP) 1028 6086
Object Detection (SP) 866 6804
Depth Estimation (Q) 2410 32732
Style Transfer (SP) 11417 123465
Framework ONNX Core ML
Backend DirectML GPU
Sources: Geekbench [9], [10]
Results were compared using different ML frameworks

Specifications

Technical specifications of Intel UHD Graphics Xe (32 EU) and Apple M4 Pro GPU (16-core)

General

Vendor Intel Apple
Build Integrated Integrated
Released January 4, 2022 October 29, 2024
Case Laptop Laptop
Purpose Generic Professional
Segment Entry-level Mid-range
Architecture Generation 12.2 Apple M GPU
GPU Codename Alder Lake GT1 Custom
Rival Equivalent - Radeon RX Vega 7 - GeForce RTX 4060 Laptop
Successor - - Apple M5 Pro GPU (16-core)
Recommended CPU - Intel Core i5 11500H or above - Apple M4 Pro (12-Core) or above
Used in CPUs - Intel Core 3 N355
- Intel Core i7 12650HX
- Intel Core i9 14900HX
- Intel Core i3 N300
- Intel Processor N200
- Intel Core i3 N305
- Intel Core i9 13900HX
- Intel Core i7 11850H
- and 4 more
- Apple M4 Pro (12-Core)
Laptop GPU ranking (132nd and 45th place)

Graphics Processing Unit

Base Clock 300 MHz 500 MHz
Boost Clock 1450-1650 MHz (configurable) 1578 MHz
Shading Units 256 2048
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 16 128
Render Output Units (ROPs) 8 64
Compute Units (Pipelines) 32 256
Tensor Cores No -
Ray-tracing Cores No -
L2 Cache 1024KB shared -
Instructions Per Cycle 2 IPC 2 IPC

Raw Performance

Pixel Fill Rate 12-13 GPixel/s 101 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 23-26 GTexel/s 202 GTexel/s
FLOPS (FP32)
0.7-0.8 TFLOPS
6.5 TFLOPS

Physical

Interface Ring Bus Custom
TGP 15 W 26 W
Manufacturing Intel TSMC
Fabrication Process 10 nm 3 nm
Max. Temperature - 100°C

Memory

Memory Type System Shared System Shared
Memory Clock - 8533 MHz
Effective Memory Speed - 15000 Mbps
Bus - 192-bit
ECC No No
Memory Bandwidth

API

DirectX 12 -
Vulkan 1.3 -
OpenGL 4.6 -
OpenCL 3.0 -
Ray Tracing No Yes
DLSS No No
DisplayPort 1.4a -

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