Intel UHD Graphics 630 vs Apple M1 Pro GPU (16-core)

We compared two integrated laptop graphics cards: the Intel UHD Graphics 630 with 24 pipelines and 192 shaders against the 3 years and 7 months newer Apple M1 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
Energy Efficiency
Power consumption efficiency in different scenarios
NanoReview Final Score
Overall video card score

Key differences

Key distinctions and advantages of M1 Pro GPU (16-core) over UHD Graphics 630
Reasons to consider the Apple M1 Pro GPU (16-core)
  • Performs significantly better (up to 11.8x) in 3DMark Steel Nomad Lite
  • 10.6x higher maximum theoretical performance (5.3 vs 0.5 TFLOPS)
  • Manufactured using a more efficient 5 nm process technology
  • Achieves 7.3x more points in the GeekBench 6 Compute test (42K vs 5K)
  • Has 10.7x more shading units (2048 vs 192)

Gaming Performance

Frame rate comparison across popular AAA titles at different resolutions

Games

FPS Table
Forza Horizon 5
10
-
-
-
-
The Witcher 3
-
-
-
-
-
Counter-Strike 2
12
-
-
-
-
Average FPS by Resolution
1080p High - -
1080p Ultra - -
1440p Ultra - -
4K Ultra - -
Margin of Error High 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 438 -
Solar Bay - 12485
Fire Strike 1328 -
Wild Life Extreme 762 9873
Night Raid 5037 -
Sources: 3DMark [1], [2]

GeekBench 6 OpenCL

GPU test for computational tasks (image processing, photography, computer vision, and ML)
GB6 Compute Score
Background Blur 11.2 img/sec 74.5 img/sec
Face Detection 6.77 img/sec 47.3 img/sec
Horizon Detection 0.21 Gpixels/sec 1.73 Gpixels/sec
Edge Detection 0.31 Gpixels/sec 3.32 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 0.22 Gpixels/sec 1.75 Gpixels/sec
Feature Matching 0.08 Gpixels/sec 0.47 Gpixels/sec
Stereo Matching 21.4 Gpixels/sec 131.2 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 794.3 FPS 5143 FPS
API OpenCL OpenCL
Sources: Geekbench [3], [4]

Cinebench 2024 GPU

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

Passmark Graphics

Videocard test that focuses on compute shaders, multi-texturing, tessellation, and other features
G3D Mark Score
G2D Mark 292 -
DirectX 11 10 FPS -
DirectX 12 5 FPS -
GPU Compute 495 Ops/s -
Sources: PassMark [5]33061 samples

Blender

Rendering performance test for 3D modeling
Blender GPU
Sources: Blender [9], [10]3 & 499 samples

Recent User Tests

The latest benchmark tests that have been submitted by users
Intel UHD Graphics 630
No benchmark results yet
Apple M1 Pro GPU (16-core)
DateBenchmarkResult
📘 2026-03-27 (bbffx)GeekBench43467
📘 2026-03-27 (bbffx)Cinebench 20242423
📘 2026-03-27 (bbffx)Steel Nomad Light4048
📘 2025-02-21 (serhii)GeekBench40932

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) - 4112
Image Segmentation (HP) - 7488
Image Super Resolution (Q) - 9882
Face Detection (HP) - 14702
Pose Estimation (Q) - 33560
Text Classification (SP) - 2289
Machine Translation (HP) - 1629
Object Detection (SP) - 3633
Depth Estimation (Q) - 16986
Style Transfer (SP) - 53586
Framework - Core ML
Backend - GPU
Sources: Geekbench [9], [10]

Specifications

Technical specifications of Intel UHD Graphics 630 and Apple M1 Pro GPU (16-core)

General

Vendor Intel Apple
Build Integrated Integrated
Released April 3, 2018 October 18, 2021
Case Laptop Laptop
Purpose Generic Professional
Segment Entry-level Mid-range
Architecture Generation 9.5 Apple M GPU
GPU Codename Coffee Lake GT2 -
Rival Equivalent - - GeForce RTX 3050 Laptop
Successor - Intel UHD Graphics Xe (32 EU) - Apple M5 Pro GPU (20-core)
Recommended CPU - Intel Core i5 8300H or above - Apple M1 Pro or above
Used in CPUs - Intel Core i7 10870H
- Intel Core i9 10885H
- Intel Core i9 10850K
- Intel Core i5 10500T
- Intel Core i5 10300H
- Intel Core i7 9700T
- Intel Core i5 9500T
- Intel Core i3 9100T
- and 38 more
- Apple M1 Pro
Laptop GPU ranking (137th and 77th place)

Graphics Processing Unit

Base Clock 350 MHz 450 MHz
Boost Clock 1000-1250 MHz (configurable) 1296 MHz
Shading Units 192 2048
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 24 128
Render Output Units (ROPs) 3 64
Compute Units (Pipelines) 24 256
Ray-tracing Cores - No
Instructions Per Cycle 2 IPC 2 IPC

Raw Performance

Pixel Fill Rate 3-4 GPixel/s 83 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 24-30 GTexel/s 166 GTexel/s
FLOPS (FP32)
0.4-0.5 TFLOPS
5.3 TFLOPS

Physical

Interface Ring Bus Custom
TGP 15 W 30 W
Manufacturing Intel TSMC
Fabrication Process 14 nm 5 nm
Die Size 49 mm² -
Transistor Count 0.19 billion 23.2 billion
Transistor Density 3.88 MTr/mm² -
Max. Temperature - 94°C

Memory

Memory Type System Shared System Shared
Memory Size System RAM Dependent -
Memory Clock System RAM Dependent 6400 MHz
Effective Memory Speed System RAM Dependent 12800 Mbps
Bus - 256-bit
ECC No No
Memory Bandwidth

API

DirectX 12 -
Vulkan 1.1.103 -
OpenGL 4.6 -
OpenCL 2.1 -
Ray Tracing No No
DLSS No No
DisplayPort 1.2 -

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