Apple M1 8-Core GPU: specs and benchmarks
Aggregated performance score
Summary
Apple started M1 8-Core GPU sales 10 November 2020. This is notebook card based on 5 nm manufacturing process and primarily aimed at gamers.
It provides poor gaming and benchmark performance at 14.03% of a leader's which is NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090.
General info
Some basic facts about Apple M1 8-Core GPU: architecture, market segment, release date etc.
Place in performance ranking | 343 | |
Place by popularity | not in top-100 | |
Market segment | Laptop | |
Release date | 10 November 2020 (3 years old) |
Technical specs
Apple M1 8-Core GPU's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of Apple M1 8-Core GPU's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.
Pipelines / CUDA cores | 8 | of 20480 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT) |
Core clock speed | 1278 MHz | of 2610 (Radeon RX 6500 XT) |
Manufacturing process technology | 5 nm | of 4 (GeForce RTX 4080) |
Memory
Parameters of memory installed on Apple M1 8-Core GPU: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that GPUs integrated into processors have no dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM instead.
Shared memory | + |
Benchmark performance
Synthetic benchmark performance of Apple M1 8-Core GPU. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.
Combined synthetic benchmark score
This is our combined benchmark performance score. We are regularly improving our combining algorithms, but if you find some perceived inconsistencies, feel free to speak up in comments section, we usually fix problems quickly.
3DMark Ice Storm GPU
Ice Storm Graphics is an obsolete benchmark, part of 3DMark suite. Ice Storm was used to measure entry level laptops and Windows-based tablets performance. It utilizes DirectX 11 feature level 9 to display a battle between two space fleets near a frozen planet in 1280x720 resolution. Discontinued in January 2020, it is now superseded by 3DMark Night Raid.
Benchmark coverage: 8%
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Gaming performance
Let's see how good Apple M1 8-Core GPU is for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in frames per second. Comparisons with game system requirements are included, but remember that sometimes official requirements may reflect reality inaccurately.
Average FPS across all PC games
Here are the average frames per second in a large set of popular modern games across different resolutions:
Full HD | 28 |
Performance in popular games
Full HD
Low Preset
Cyberpunk 2077 | 21−24 |
Full HD
Medium Preset
Assassin's Creed Odyssey | 27−30 | |
Assassin's Creed Valhalla | 21−24 | |
Battlefield 5 | 45−50 | |
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare | 35−40 | |
Cyberpunk 2077 | 21−24 | |
Far Cry 5 | 35−40 | |
Far Cry New Dawn | 35−40 | |
Forza Horizon 4 | 50−55 | |
Hitman 3 | 35−40 | |
Horizon Zero Dawn | 27−30 | |
Red Dead Redemption 2 | 24−27 | |
Shadow of the Tomb Raider | 27 | |
Watch Dogs: Legion | 24−27 |
Full HD
High Preset
Assassin's Creed Odyssey | 27−30 | |
Assassin's Creed Valhalla | 21−24 | |
Battlefield 5 | 45−50 | |
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare | 35−40 | |
Cyberpunk 2077 | 21−24 | |
Far Cry 5 | 35−40 | |
Far Cry New Dawn | 35−40 | |
Forza Horizon 4 | 50−55 | |
Hitman 3 | 35−40 | |
Horizon Zero Dawn | 27−30 | |
Metro Exodus | 21−24 | |
Red Dead Redemption 2 | 24−27 | |
Shadow of the Tomb Raider | 32 | |
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt | 27−30 | |
Watch Dogs: Legion | 24−27 |
Full HD
Ultra Preset
Assassin's Creed Odyssey | 27−30 | |
Assassin's Creed Valhalla | 21−24 | |
Battlefield 5 | 45−50 | |
Cyberpunk 2077 | 21−24 | |
Far Cry 5 | 35−40 | |
Far Cry New Dawn | 35−40 | |
Forza Horizon 4 | 50−55 | |
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt | 27−30 | |
Watch Dogs: Legion | 24−27 |
1440p
High Preset
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare | 20−22 | |
Hitman 3 | 21−24 | |
Horizon Zero Dawn | 20−22 | |
Metro Exodus | 12−14 | |
Red Dead Redemption 2 | 10−11 | |
Shadow of the Tomb Raider | 18−20 |
1440p
Ultra Preset
Assassin's Creed Odyssey | 14−16 | |
Assassin's Creed Valhalla | 10−12 | |
Battlefield 5 | 27−30 | |
Cyberpunk 2077 | 7−8 | |
Far Cry 5 | 21−24 | |
Far Cry New Dawn | 24−27 | |
Forza Horizon 4 | 27−30 | |
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt | 14−16 | |
Watch Dogs: Legion | 8−9 |
4K
High Preset
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare | 10−11 | |
Hitman 3 | 12−14 | |
Horizon Zero Dawn | 10−11 | |
Metro Exodus | 7−8 | |
Red Dead Redemption 2 | 8−9 | |
Shadow of the Tomb Raider | 8−9 | |
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt | 12−14 |
4K
Ultra Preset
Assassin's Creed Odyssey | 8−9 | |
Assassin's Creed Valhalla | 7−8 | |
Battlefield 5 | 14−16 | |
Cyberpunk 2077 | 2−3 | |
Far Cry 5 | 10−12 | |
Far Cry New Dawn | 14−16 | |
Forza Horizon 4 | 18−20 | |
Watch Dogs: Legion | 5−6 |
Relative perfomance
Overall Apple M1 8-Core GPU performance compared to nearest competitors among notebook video cards.
Similar GPUs
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Recommended processors
These processors are most commonly used with Apple M1 8-Core GPU according to our statistics.