AMD Radeon 610M vs Apple M1 Ultra GPU (64-core)
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AMD Radeon 610M
Mendocino
Apple M1 Ultra GPU (64-core)
Custom
We compared two integrated laptop graphics cards: the Radeon 610M with 2 pipelines and 128 shaders against the 7 months older Apple M1 Ultra GPU (64-core) that utilizes 1024 pipelines and 8192 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
Key differences
Reasons to consider the Apple M1 Ultra GPU (64-core)
- Performs significantly better (up to 24.1x) in 3DMark Steel Nomad Lite
- 35.3x higher maximum theoretical performance (21.2 vs 0.6 TFLOPS)
- Manufactured using a more efficient 5 nm process technology
- Has 64x more shading units (8192 vs 128)
- Achieves 20.9x more points in the GeekBench 6 Compute test (106K vs 5K)
Gaming Performance
Frame rate comparison across popular AAA titles at different resolutionsGames
| Forza Horizon 5 | 11 - - - |
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| Counter-Strike 2 | 16 11 - - |
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| Far Cry 6 | 9 - - - |
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| CoD: Modern Warfare III | 13 11 9 - |
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| Ghost of Tsushima | - - - - |
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| Shadow of the Tomb Raider | - 9 - - |
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| 1080p High | 9 | - |
| 1080p Ultra | - | - |
| 1440p Ultra | - | - |
| 4K Ultra | - | - |
| Margin of Error | Low | High |
Benchmarks
Graphics cards’ performance in recent benchmarking apps3D Mark
Steel Nomad Lite Score
| Time Spy | 519 | - |
| Solar Bay | 2068 | 36712 |
| Port Royal | 291 | - |
| Fire Strike | 1745 | - |
| Wild Life Extreme | 998 | 29343 |
| Night Raid | 7335 | - |
GeekBench 6 OpenCL
GB6 Compute Score
| Background Blur | 12 img/sec | 157.3 img/sec |
| Face Detection | 6.42 img/sec | 108.7 img/sec |
| Horizon Detection | 0.16 Gpixels/sec | 5.07 Gpixels/sec |
| Edge Detection | 0.23 Gpixels/sec | 10.7 Gpixels/sec |
| Gaussian Blur | 0.16 Gpixels/sec | 6.59 Gpixels/sec |
| Feature Matching | 0.07 Gpixels/sec | 0.73 Gpixels/sec |
| Stereo Matching | 18.2 Gpixels/sec | 293.4 Gpixels/sec |
| Particle Physics | 828.6 FPS | 14154.4 FPS |
| API | OpenCL | OpenCL |
Cinebench 2024 GPU
Cinebench 2024 GPU
Passmark Graphics
G3D Mark Score
| G2D Mark | 535 | - |
| DirectX 11 | 17 FPS | - |
| DirectX 12 | 7 FPS | - |
| GPU Compute | 768 Ops/s | - |
Blender
Blender GPU
Recent User Tests
Radeon 610M
| Date | Benchmark | Result |
|---|---|---|
| 📘 2026-05-05 (StarSophia) | Steel Nomad Light | 614 |
Apple M1 Ultra GPU (64-core)
No benchmark results yet
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) | 660 | 4834 |
| Image Segmentation (HP) | 627 | 14458 |
| Image Super Resolution (Q) | 2053 | 13757 |
| Face Detection (HP) | 2153 | 23618 |
| Pose Estimation (Q) | 5787 | 80481 |
| Text Classification (SP) | 713 | 2265 |
| Machine Translation (HP) | 1114 | 1798 |
| Object Detection (SP) | 709 | 4975 |
| Depth Estimation (Q) | 3233 | 25755 |
| Style Transfer (SP) | 11091 | 135609 |
| Framework | ONNX | Core ML |
| Backend | DirectML | GPU |
Results were compared using different ML frameworks
Specifications
Technical specifications of Radeon 610M and Apple M1 Ultra GPU (64-core)General
| Vendor | Amd | Apple |
| Build | Integrated | Integrated |
| Released | October 1, 2022 | March 8, 2022 |
| Case | Laptop | Laptop |
| Purpose | Generic | Professional |
| Segment | Entry-level | High-end |
| Architecture | RDNA 2.0 | Apple M GPU |
| GPU Codename | Mendocino | Custom |
| Rival Equivalent | - | - GeForce RTX 4070 Laptop |
| Recommended CPU | - AMD Ryzen 5 7520U or above | - Apple M1 Ultra or above |
| Used in CPUs | - AMD Ryzen 9 8945HX - AMD Ryzen 9 8940HX - AMD Ryzen 9 9850HX - AMD Ryzen 9 9955HX - AMD Ryzen 9 9955HX3D - AMD Ryzen 5 9600X - AMD Ryzen 7 9700X - AMD Ryzen 9 7945HX3D - and 6 more |
- Apple M1 Ultra |
Laptop GPU ranking (124th and 30th place)
Graphics Processing Unit
| Base Clock | 400 MHz | 450 MHz |
| Boost Clock | 1900-2200 MHz (configurable) | 1296 MHz |
| Shading Units | 128 | 8192 |
| Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) | 8 | 512 |
| Render Output Units (ROPs) | 4 | 256 |
| Compute Units (Pipelines) | 2 | 1024 |
| Ray-tracing Cores | 2 | - |
| L1 Cache | 128KB per cluster | - |
| L2 Cache | 2MB shared | - |
| Instructions Per Cycle | 2 IPC | 2 IPC |
Raw Performance
| Pixel Fill Rate | 8-9 GPixel/s | 332 GPixel/s |
| Texture Fill Rate | 15-18 GTexel/s | 664 GTexel/s |
FLOPS (FP32)
Physical
| Interface | PCIe 4.0 x8 | Custom |
| TGP | 15 W | 120 W |
| Manufacturing | TSMC | TSMC |
| Fabrication Process | 6 nm | 5 nm |
| Die Size | 122 mm² | - |
| Transistor Count | 3.4 billion | 92.8 billion |
| Transistor Density | 27.87 MTr/mm² | - |
| Max. Temperature | - | 94°C |
Memory
| Memory Type | System Shared | System Shared |
| Memory Clock | - | 6400 MHz |
| Effective Memory Speed | - | 12800 Mbps |
| Bus | - | 1024-bit |
| ECC | No | No |
Memory Bandwidth
API
| DirectX | 12 | - |
| Vulkan | 1.3 | - |
| OpenGL | 4.6 | - |
| OpenCL | 2.0 | - |
| Ray Tracing | Yes | No |
| DLSS | No | No |
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