UHD Graphics 64EUs (Alder Lake 12th Gen) vs Apple M1 Pro 16-Core GPU

Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in performance rankingnot rated512
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Architectureno dataGen. 12 (2021)
GPU code nameno dataAlder Lake Xe
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date10 November 2020 (3 years ago)4 January 2022 (2 years ago)

Detailed specifications

General performance parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider their benchmark and gaming test results. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores1664
Core clock speed1296 MHzno data
Boost clock speedno data1400 MHz
Manufacturing process technology5 nm10 nm
Power consumption (TDP)10 Wattno data

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeLPDDR5-6400no data
Shared memory-+

Supported technologies

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Quick Syncno data+

API compatibility

List of supported graphics and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectXno data12_1

Pros & cons summary


Recency 10 November 2020 4 January 2022
Chip lithography 5 nm 10 nm

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