Intel UHD Graphics 770 vs Apple M4 Max GPU (32-core)

We compared two integrated laptop graphics cards: the Intel UHD Graphics 770 with 32 pipelines and 256 shaders against the 3 years newer Apple M4 Max GPU (32-core) that utilizes 512 pipelines and 4096 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 M4 Max GPU (32-core) over UHD Graphics 770
Reasons to consider the Apple M4 Max GPU (32-core)
  • Performs significantly better (up to 20.8x) in 3DMark Steel Nomad Lite
  • 16.1x higher maximum theoretical performance (12.9 vs 0.8 TFLOPS)
  • Manufactured using a more efficient 3 nm process technology
  • Achieves 12.2x more points in the GeekBench 6 Compute test (100K vs 8K)
  • Has 16x more shading units (4096 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 High

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 - 50957
Fire Strike 2899 -
Wild Life Extreme 1960 30044
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 174.8 img/sec
Face Detection 11.6 img/sec 112 img/sec
Horizon Detection 0.32 Gpixels/sec 4.19 Gpixels/sec
Edge Detection 0.51 Gpixels/sec 6.3 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 0.31 Gpixels/sec 4.69 Gpixels/sec
Feature Matching 0.1 Gpixels/sec 0.98 Gpixels/sec
Stereo Matching 20.2 Gpixels/sec 352.1 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 1156.4 FPS 14254.6 FPS
API OpenCL OpenCL
Sources: Geekbench [3], [4]

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
4444.27
Sources: Blender [9], [10] – 2 & 206 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) - 8624
Image Segmentation (HP) - 20392
Image Super Resolution (Q) - 21752
Face Detection (HP) - 34099
Pose Estimation (Q) - 77846
Text Classification (SP) - 2993
Machine Translation (HP) - 5658
Object Detection (SP) - 7933
Depth Estimation (Q) - 37622
Style Transfer (SP) - 173882
Framework - Core ML
Backend - GPU
Sources: Geekbench [9], [10]

Specifications

Technical specifications of Intel UHD Graphics 770 and Apple M4 Max GPU (32-core)

General

Vendor Intel Apple
Build Integrated Integrated
Released November 4, 2021 October 30, 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 - - GeForce RTX 4070 Laptop
Successor - - Apple M5 Max GPU (32-core)
Recommended CPU - Intel Core i5 12500 or above - Apple M4 Max (14-Core) 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 M4 Max (14-Core)
Laptop GPU ranking (136th and 19th place)

Graphics Processing Unit

Base Clock 300 MHz 500 MHz
Boost Clock 1350-1650 MHz (configurable) 1578 MHz
Shading Units 256 4096
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 16 256
Render Output Units (ROPs) 8 128
Compute Units (Pipelines) 32 512
Tensor Cores No -
Ray-tracing Cores No -
Instructions Per Cycle 2 IPC 2 IPC

Raw Performance

Pixel Fill Rate 11-13 GPixel/s 202 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 22-26 GTexel/s 404 GTexel/s
FLOPS (FP32)
0.7-0.8 TFLOPS
12.9 TFLOPS

Physical

Interface Ring Bus Custom
TGP 15 W 51 W
Manufacturing Intel TSMC
Fabrication Process 10 nm 3 nm
Max. Temperature 100°C 100°C

Memory

Memory Type System Shared System Shared
Memory Clock - 8533 MHz
Bus - 384-bit
ECC - No
Memory Bandwidth

API

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

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