Intel UHD Graphics 770 vs Apple M1 Pro GPU (16-core)

We compared two integrated laptop graphics cards: the Intel UHD Graphics 770 with 32 pipelines and 256 shaders against the 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 770
Reasons to consider the Apple M1 Pro GPU (16-core)
  • Performs significantly better (up to 6.7x) in 3DMark Steel Nomad Lite
  • 6.6x higher maximum theoretical performance (5.3 vs 0.8 TFLOPS)
  • Manufactured using a more efficient 5 nm process technology
  • Achieves 5.1x more points in the GeekBench 6 Compute test (42K 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
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 - 12485
Fire Strike 2899 -
Wild Life Extreme 1960 9873
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 74.5 img/sec
Face Detection 11.6 img/sec 47.3 img/sec
Horizon Detection 0.32 Gpixels/sec 1.73 Gpixels/sec
Edge Detection 0.51 Gpixels/sec 3.32 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 0.31 Gpixels/sec 1.75 Gpixels/sec
Feature Matching 0.1 Gpixels/sec 0.47 Gpixels/sec
Stereo Matching 20.2 Gpixels/sec 131.2 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 1156.4 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 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
Sources: Blender [9], [10] – 2 & 502 samples

Recent User Tests

The latest benchmark tests that have been submitted by users
Intel UHD Graphics 770
No benchmark results yet
Apple M1 Pro GPU (16-core)
DateBenchmarkResult
📘 2026-03-27 (bbffx)Geekbench 6 OpenCL43467
📘 2026-03-27 (bbffx)Cinebench 20242423
📘 2026-03-27 (bbffx)Steel Nomad Light4048
📘 2025-02-21 (serhii)Geekbench 6 OpenCL40932

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 770 and Apple M1 Pro GPU (16-core)

General

Vendor Intel Apple
Build Integrated Integrated
Released November 4, 2021 October 18, 2021
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 RTX 3050 Laptop
Successor - - Apple M5 Pro GPU (20-core)
Recommended CPU - Intel Core i5 12500 or above - Apple M1 Pro 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 Pro
Laptop GPU ranking (135th and 78th place)

Graphics Processing Unit

Base Clock 300 MHz 450 MHz
Boost Clock 1350-1650 MHz (configurable) 1296 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 No
Instructions Per Cycle 2 IPC 2 IPC

Raw Performance

Pixel Fill Rate 11-13 GPixel/s 83 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 22-26 GTexel/s 166 GTexel/s
FLOPS (FP32)
0.7-0.8 TFLOPS
5.3 TFLOPS

Physical

Interface Ring Bus Custom
TGP 15 W 30 W
Manufacturing Intel TSMC
Fabrication Process 10 nm 5 nm
Transistor Count - 23.2 billion
Max. Temperature 100°C 94°C

Memory

Memory Type System Shared System Shared
Memory Clock - 6400 MHz
Effective Memory Speed - 12800 Mbps
Bus - 256-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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