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 21760 (GeForce RTX 5090)
Core clock speed	1278 MHz	of 2610 MHz (Radeon RX 6500 XT)
Manufacturing process technology	5 nm	of 3 nm (Arc Graphics 140V)

VRAM capacity and type

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 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.

Apple M1 8-Core GPU 14.54

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 Discontinued in January 2020, it is now superseded by 3DMark Night Raid.

Apple M1 8-Core GPU 280200

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

FPS performance in popular games

Full HD
Low Preset

Cyberpunk 2077

21−24

Full HD
Medium Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	30−35
Assassin's Creed Valhalla	21−24
Battlefield 5	45−50
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare	27−30
Cyberpunk 2077	21−24
Far Cry 5	30−35
Far Cry New Dawn	35−40
Forza Horizon 4	90−95
Hitman 3	27−30
Horizon Zero Dawn	70−75
Metro Exodus	45−50
Red Dead Redemption 2	35−40
Shadow of the Tomb Raider	45−50
Watch Dogs: Legion	75−80

Full HD
High Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	30−35
Assassin's Creed Valhalla	21−24
Battlefield 5	45−50
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare	27−30
Cyberpunk 2077	21−24
Far Cry 5	30−35
Far Cry New Dawn	35−40
Forza Horizon 4	90−95
Hitman 3	27−30
Horizon Zero Dawn	70−75
Metro Exodus	45−50
Red Dead Redemption 2	35−40
Shadow of the Tomb Raider	45−50
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt	30−35
Watch Dogs: Legion	75−80

Full HD
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	30−35
Assassin's Creed Valhalla	21−24
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare	27−30
Cyberpunk 2077	21−24
Far Cry 5	30−35
Forza Horizon 4	90−95
Hitman 3	27−30
Horizon Zero Dawn	70−75
Shadow of the Tomb Raider	45−50
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt	30−35
Watch Dogs: Legion	75−80

Full HD
Epic Preset

Red Dead Redemption 2

35−40

1440p
High Preset

Battlefield 5	27−30
Far Cry New Dawn	21−24

1440p
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	14−16
Assassin's Creed Valhalla	10−12
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare	14−16
Cyberpunk 2077	7−8
Far Cry 5	16−18
Forza Horizon 4	70−75
Hitman 3	16−18
Horizon Zero Dawn	27−30
Metro Exodus	24−27
Shadow of the Tomb Raider	24−27
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt	14−16
Watch Dogs: Legion	85−90

1440p
Epic Preset

Red Dead Redemption 2

21−24

4K
High Preset

Battlefield 5	14−16
Far Cry New Dawn	10−11
Hitman 3	10−11
Horizon Zero Dawn	65−70
Metro Exodus	12−14
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt	12−14

4K
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	8−9
Assassin's Creed Valhalla	7−8
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare	7−8
Cyberpunk 2077	2−3
Far Cry 5	8−9
Forza Horizon 4	18−20
Shadow of the Tomb Raider	12−14
Watch Dogs: Legion	5−6