AMD Radeon 860M vs Apple M4 GPU (8-core)
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AMD Radeon 860M
Krackan Point
Apple M4 GPU (8-core)
Custom
We compared two integrated laptop graphics cards: the Radeon 860M with 8 pipelines and 512 shaders against the 3 months older Apple M4 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
Energy Efficiency
Power consumption efficiency in different scenarios
NanoReview Final Score
Overall video card score
Key differences
Reasons to consider the Apple M4 GPU (8-core)
- Performs significantly better (up to 58%) in 3DMark Steel Nomad Lite
- Manufactured using a more efficient 3 nm process technology
- Achieves 34% more points in the GeekBench 6 Compute test (30K vs 22K)
- Has 2x more shading units (1024 vs 512)
Gaming Performance
Frame rate comparison across popular AAA titles at different resolutionsGames
| Forza Horizon 5 | 41 24 20 11 |
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| The Witcher 3 | 19 18 11 - |
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| Counter-Strike 2 | 39 26 19 9 |
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| Far Cry 6 | 31 26 16 9 |
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| Hogwarts Legacy | 16 12 10 - |
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| CoD: Modern Warfare III | 28 27 17 12 |
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| Ghost of Tsushima | 16 12 9 - |
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| Cyberpunk 2077 | 19 13 - - |
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| Shadow of the Tomb Raider | 29 22 15 - |
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| 1080p High | 26 | - |
| 1080p Ultra | 20 | - |
| 1440p Ultra | 14 | - |
| 4K Ultra | - | - |
| Margin of Error | Low | Low |
Benchmarks
Graphics cards’ performance in recent benchmarking apps3D Mark
Steel Nomad Lite Score
| Time Spy | 2604 | - |
| Solar Bay | 11094 | 13969 |
| Port Royal | 1046 | - |
| Fire Strike | 6772 | - |
| Wild Life Extreme | 5124 | 7931 |
| Night Raid | 29064 | - |
GeekBench 6 OpenCL
GB6 Compute Score
| Background Blur | 57.2 img/sec | 57.4 img/sec |
| Face Detection | 30.5 img/sec | 41.3 img/sec |
| Horizon Detection | 0.83 Gpixels/sec | 1.21 Gpixels/sec |
| Edge Detection | 1.16 Gpixels/sec | 1.74 Gpixels/sec |
| Gaussian Blur | 0.93 Gpixels/sec | 1.12 Gpixels/sec |
| Feature Matching | 0.35 Gpixels/sec | 0.43 Gpixels/sec |
| Stereo Matching | 97.8 Gpixels/sec | 94.9 Gpixels/sec |
| Particle Physics | 3933.5 FPS | 3902.5 FPS |
| API | OpenCL | OpenCL |
Passmark Graphics
G3D Mark Score
| G2D Mark | 920 | - |
| DirectX 11 | 37 FPS | - |
| DirectX 12 | 25 FPS | - |
| GPU Compute | 2437 Ops/s | - |
Blender
Blender GPU
Recent User Tests
Radeon 860M
| Date | Benchmark | Result |
|---|---|---|
| 📘 2026-08-17 (flauzwerfer) | Geekbench 6 OpenCL | 24017 |
| 📘 2026-08-17 (flauzwerfer) | Steel Nomad Light | 2476 |
| 📘 2026-07-04 -> Starjack36 | Geekbench 6 OpenCL | 24971 |
Apple M4 GPU (8-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) | 2022 | - |
| Image Segmentation (HP) | 3987 | - |
| Image Super Resolution (Q) | 6657 | - |
| Face Detection (HP) | 10337 | - |
| Pose Estimation (Q) | 28437 | - |
| Text Classification (SP) | 2326 | - |
| Machine Translation (HP) | 4011 | - |
| Object Detection (SP) | 1995 | - |
| Depth Estimation (Q) | 12031 | - |
| Style Transfer (SP) | 56710 | - |
| Framework | ONNX | - |
| Backend | DirectML | - |
Specifications
Technical specifications of Radeon 860M and Apple M4 GPU (8-core)General
| Vendor | Amd | Apple |
| Build | Integrated | Integrated |
| Released | January 7, 2025 | October 29, 2024 |
| Case | Laptop | Laptop |
| Purpose | Generic | Professional |
| Segment | Mid-range | Mid-range |
| Architecture | RDNA 3.5 | Apple M GPU |
| GPU Codename | Krackan Point | Custom |
| Rival Equivalent | - Intel Arc 140T | - |
| Successor | - Radeon 8040S | - Apple M5 GPU (8-Core) |
| Recommended CPU | - AMD Ryzen AI 7 350 or above | - Apple M4 (8-Core) or above |
| Used in CPUs | - AMD Ryzen AI 7 450 - AMD Ryzen AI 7 350 |
- Apple M4 (8-Core) |
Laptop GPU ranking (101st and 68th place)
Graphics Processing Unit
| Base Clock | 600 MHz | 500 MHz |
| Boost Clock | 3000 MHz | 1470 MHz |
| Shading Units | 512 | 1024 |
| Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) | 32 | 64 |
| Render Output Units (ROPs) | 16 | 32 |
| Compute Units (Pipelines) | 8 | 128 |
| Tensor Cores | No | - |
| Ray-tracing Cores | 8 | - |
| L1 Cache | 128KB per cluster | - |
| L2 Cache | 2MB shared | - |
| Instructions Per Cycle | 2 IPC | 2 IPC |
Raw Performance
| Pixel Fill Rate | 48 GPixel/s | 47 GPixel/s |
| Texture Fill Rate | 96 GTexel/s | 94 GTexel/s |
FLOPS (FP32)
Physical
| Interface | PCIe 4.0 x8 | Custom |
| TGP | 15 W | 15 W |
| Manufacturing | TSMC | TSMC |
| Fabrication Process | 4 nm | 3 nm |
| Die Size | 233 mm² | - |
| Transistor Count | 34 billion | - |
| Transistor Density | 145.92 MTr/mm² | - |
| Max. Temperature | 100°C | 100°C |
Memory
| Memory Type | System Shared | System Shared |
| Memory Clock | - | 7500 MHz |
| Effective Memory Speed | - | 15000 Mbps |
| Bus | - | 128-bit |
| ECC | No | No |
Memory Bandwidth
API
| DirectX | 12 | - |
| Vulkan | 1.4 | - |
| OpenGL | 4.6 | - |
| OpenCL | 2.1 | - |
| CUDA | No | - |
| Ray Tracing | Yes | Yes |
| DLSS | No | No |
| DisplayPort | 2.1 | - |
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