Intel UHD Graphics 770 vs Apple M1 GPU (8-core)

We compared two integrated laptop graphics cards: the Intel UHD Graphics 770 with 32 pipelines and 256 shaders against the 11 months older Apple M1 GPU (8-core) that utilizes 128 pipelines and 1024 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 GPU (8-core) over UHD Graphics 770
Reasons to consider the Apple M1 GPU (8-core)
  • Performs significantly better (up to 3.3x) in 3DMark Steel Nomad Lite
  • 3.3x higher maximum theoretical performance (2.6 vs 0.8 TFLOPS)
  • Manufactured using a more efficient 5 nm process technology
  • Achieves 2.5x more points in the GeekBench 6 Compute test (20K vs 8K)
  • Has 4x more shading units (1024 vs 256)

Gaming Performance

Frame rate comparison across popular AAA titles at different resolutions

Games

FPS Table
Forza Horizon 5
16
-
-
-
-
The Witcher 3
-
-
-
-
-
Counter-Strike 2
14
10
-
-
-
Far Cry 6
10
-
-
-
-
CoD: Modern Warfare III
-
-
-
-
-
Ghost of Tsushima
9
-
-
-
-
Shadow of the Tomb Raider
-
-
-
-
-
Average FPS by Resolution
1080p High 9 -
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 809 -
Solar Bay - 6317
Fire Strike 2899 -
Wild Life Extreme 1960 4966
Night Raid 11888 -
Sources: 3DMark [1], [2]

GeekBench 6 OpenCL

GPU test for computational tasks (image processing, photography, computer vision, and ML)
GB6 Compute Score
Background Blur 17.9 img/sec 38.3 img/sec
Face Detection 11.6 img/sec 23 img/sec
Horizon Detection 0.32 Gpixels/sec 0.76 Gpixels/sec
Edge Detection 0.51 Gpixels/sec 1.33 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 0.31 Gpixels/sec 0.87 Gpixels/sec
Feature Matching 0.1 Gpixels/sec 0.27 Gpixels/sec
Stereo Matching 20.2 Gpixels/sec 69.9 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 1156.4 FPS 2766.4 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 551 -
DirectX 11 11 FPS -
DirectX 12 9 FPS -
GPU Compute 816 Ops/s -
Sources: PassMark [5] – 13496 samples

Blender

Rendering performance test for 3D modeling
Blender GPU
260.64
Sources: Blender [9], [10] – 2 & 307 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) - 1400
Image Segmentation (HP) - 2280
Image Super Resolution (Q) - 3402
Face Detection (HP) - 5638
Pose Estimation (Q) - 12027
Text Classification (SP) - 2324
Machine Translation (HP) - 4296
Object Detection (SP) - 1530
Depth Estimation (Q) - 7675
Style Transfer (SP) - 17293
Framework - Core ML
Backend - CPU
Sources: Geekbench [9], [10]

Specifications

Technical specifications of Intel UHD Graphics 770 and Apple M1 GPU (8-core)

General

Vendor Intel Apple
Build Integrated Integrated
Released November 4, 2021 November 20, 2020
Case Laptop Laptop
Purpose Generic Professional
Segment Entry-level Mid-range
Architecture Generation 12.2 Apple M GPU
GPU Codename Alder Lake GT1 -
Rival Equivalent - - GeForce GTX 1050 Ti Mobile
Successor - - Apple M5 GPU (10-Core)
Recommended CPU - Intel Core i5 12500 or above - Apple M1 or above
Used in CPUs - Intel Core i7 14700HX
- Intel Core i7 14650HX
- Intel Core i5 14500HX
- Intel Core i9 14900KS
- Intel Core i9 14900
- Intel Core i7 14700
- Intel Core i5 14600
- Intel Core i5 14500
- and 24 more
- Apple M1
Laptop GPU ranking (136th and 105th place)

Graphics Processing Unit

Base Clock 300 MHz 450 MHz
Boost Clock 1350-1650 MHz (configurable) 1278 MHz
Shading Units 256 1024
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 16 64
Render Output Units (ROPs) 8 32
Compute Units (Pipelines) 32 128
Tensor Cores No -
Ray-tracing Cores No No
Instructions Per Cycle 2 IPC 2 IPC

Raw Performance

Pixel Fill Rate 11-13 GPixel/s 41 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 22-26 GTexel/s 82 GTexel/s
FLOPS (FP32)
0.7-0.8 TFLOPS
2.6 TFLOPS

Physical

Interface Ring Bus Custom
TGP 15 W 15 W
Manufacturing Intel Intel
Fabrication Process 10 nm 5 nm
Transistor Count - 11.6 billion
Max. Temperature 100°C 94°C

Memory

Memory Type System Shared System Shared
Memory Clock - 4266 MHz
Effective Memory Speed - 8532 Mbps
Bus - 128-bit
ECC - No
Memory Bandwidth

API

DirectX 12 -
Vulkan 1.2 -
OpenGL 4.6 -
OpenCL 3.0 -
Ray Tracing No No
DLSS No No
DisplayPort 1.4a -

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