Intel Xe3 Graphics (1-Core) vs Apple M1 GPU (8-core)
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Intel Xe3 Graphics (1-Core)
Wildcat Lake
We compared two integrated laptop graphics cards: the Intel Xe3 Graphics (1-Core) with 2 pipelines and 128 shaders against the 5 years and 2 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
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
Scores marked with a red asterisk (**) represent initial estimates from early testing.
Key differences
Reasons to consider the Intel Xe3 Graphics (1-Core)
- Manufactured using a more efficient 3 nm process technology
- Ray-tracing support with 1 dedicated RT cores
Reasons to consider the Apple M1 GPU (8-core)
- 4.3x higher maximum theoretical performance (2.6 vs 0.6 TFLOPS)
- Has 8x more shading units (1024 vs 128)
Benchmarks
Graphics cards’ performance in recent benchmarking apps3D Mark
Steel Nomad Lite Score
| Solar Bay | - | 6317 |
| Wild Life Extreme | - | 4966 |
GeekBench 6 GPU Compute
GB6 Compute Score
| Background Blur | - | 38.3 img/sec |
| Face Detection | - | 23 img/sec |
| Horizon Detection | - | 0.76 Gpixels/sec |
| Edge Detection | - | 1.33 Gpixels/sec |
| Gaussian Blur | - | 0.87 Gpixels/sec |
| Feature Matching | - | 0.27 Gpixels/sec |
| Stereo Matching | - | 69.9 Gpixels/sec |
| Particle Physics | - | 2766.4 FPS |
| API | - | OpenCL |
Cinebench 2024 GPU
Cinebench 2024 GPU
Artificial Intelligence Tests
Performance in machine learning and artificial intelligence tasksGeekBench 6 ML
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 |
Specifications
Technical specifications of Intel Xe3 Graphics (1-Core) and Apple M1 GPU (8-core)General
| Vendor | Intel | Apple |
| Build | Integrated | Integrated |
| Released | January 5, 2026 | November 20, 2020 |
| Case | Laptop | Laptop |
| Purpose | Generic | Professional |
| Segment | Entry-level | Mid-range |
| Architecture | Celestial | Apple M GPU |
| GPU Codename | Wildcat Lake | - |
| Rival Equivalent | - | - GeForce GTX 1050 Ti Mobile |
| Successor | - | - Apple M5 GPU (10-Core) |
| Recommended CPU | - Intel Core 3 304 or above | - Apple M1 or above |
| Used in CPUs | - Intel Core 3 304 | - Apple M1 |
Laptop GPU ranking (59th and 105th place)
Graphics Processing Unit
| Base Clock | 300 MHz | 450 MHz |
| Boost Clock | 2300 MHz | 1278 MHz |
| Shading Units | 128 | 1024 |
| Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) | 8 | 64 |
| Render Output Units (ROPs) | 4 | 32 |
| Compute Units (Pipelines) | 2 | 128 |
| Tensor Cores | 16 | - |
| Ray-tracing Cores | 1 | No |
| L1 Cache | 64KB per cluster | - |
| L2 Cache | 4MB shared | - |
| Instructions Per Cycle | 2 IPC | 2 IPC |
Raw Performance
| Pixel Fill Rate | 9 GPixel/s | 41 GPixel/s |
| Texture Fill Rate | 18 GTexel/s | 82 GTexel/s |
FLOPS (FP32)
Physical
| Interface | PCIe 4.0 | Custom |
| TGP | - | 15 W |
| Manufacturing | TSMC | Intel |
| Fabrication Process | 3 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 | No |
Memory Bandwidth
API
| DirectX | 12.1 | - |
| Vulkan | 1.4 | - |
| OpenGL | 4.6 | - |
| OpenCL | 3.0 | - |
| CUDA | No | - |
| Ray Tracing | Yes | No |
| DLSS | No | No |
| DisplayPort | 2.1 | - |
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