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Apple A18 Pro GPU vs Adreno X1-85

Apple A18 Pro GPU
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Adreno X1-85
Apple A18 Pro GPU
Custom
Adreno X1-85
Adreno X1

We compared two integrated laptop GPUs: the Apple A18 Pro GPU with 128 pipelines and 768 shaders against the 10 months older Adreno X1-85 that utilizes 6 pipelines and 1536 shaders. Here you will find complete details about specs, efficiency, performance tests, and more.

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  1. Review
  2. Differences
  3. Benchmarks
  4. AI
  5. Specs
  6. Comments

Review

General comparison of performance in games, applications, power efficiency, and other metrics
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
DeviceFacts Final Score
Overall video card score

Key differences

Key distinctions and advantages of Adreno X1-85 over A18 Pro GPU
Reasons to consider the Apple A18 Pro GPU
  • Manufactured using a more efficient 3 nm process technology
  • Achieves 28% more points in the GeekBench 6 Compute test (31K vs 24K)
Reasons to consider the Adreno X1-85
  • Performs slightly better (up to 15%) in 3DMark Steel Nomad Lite
  • 2x higher maximum theoretical performance (4.6 vs 2.3 TFLOPS)
  • Has 2x more shading units (1536 vs 768)
GPU
A18 Pro GPU
vs
Adreno X1-85

Benchmarks

Graphics cards’ performance in recent benchmarking apps

3D Mark

Multiplatform graphics benchmark suite that directly correlates with performance in modern games
Steel Nomad Lite Score
A18 Pro GPU
1794
Adreno X1-85 +15%
2067
Time Spy - 1695
Solar Bay 7365 10596
Fire Strike - 6134
Wild Life Extreme 3949 6152
Night Raid - 28868
Sources: 3DMark [1], [2]

GeekBench 6 GPU Compute

GPU test for computational tasks (image processing, photography, computer vision, and ML)
GB6 Compute Score
A18 Pro GPU +28%
31229
Adreno X1-85
24387
Background Blur 57.1 img/sec 36.4 img/sec
Face Detection 91.4 img/sec 17.3 img/sec
Horizon Detection 0.92 Gpixels/sec 1.19 Gpixels/sec
Edge Detection 1.21 Gpixels/sec 1.3 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 1.5 Gpixels/sec 1.42 Gpixels/sec
Feature Matching 0.45 Gpixels/sec 0.3 Gpixels/sec
Stereo Matching 84.2 Gpixels/sec 72.4 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 3061 FPS 4692.5 FPS
API Metal OpenCL
Sources: Geekbench [3], [4]

Passmark Graphics

Videocard test that focuses on compute shaders, multi-texturing, tessellation, and other features
G3D Mark Score
G2D Mark - 518
DirectX 11 - 19 FPS
DirectX 12 - 10 FPS
GPU Compute - 1958 Ops/s
Sources: PassMark [5] – 7 samples
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Recent User Tests

The latest benchmark tests that have been submitted by users
Apple A18 Pro GPU
DateBenchmarkResult
📘 2026-10-03 -> RennsportGeekbench 7 OpenCL18863
📘 2026-04-24 -> RennsportGeekbench 6 OpenCL19670
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Artificial Intelligence Tests

Performance in machine learning and artificial intelligence tasks

GeekBench 6 ML

Tests throughput of AI operations in single, half, and quantized precision
GB6 ML Single Precision
A18 Pro GPU +221%
6982
Adreno X1-85
2178
GB6 ML Half Precision
A18 Pro GPU +156%
8282
Adreno X1-85
3240
GB6 ML Quantized
A18 Pro GPU +295%
7200
Adreno X1-85
1825
Image Classification (SP) 3264 1347
Image Segmentation (HP) 4550 2661
Image Super Resolution (Q) 6705 3084
Face Detection (HP) 11770 5354
Pose Estimation (Q) 15548 7719
Text Classification (SP) 3678 292
Machine Translation (HP) 5678 1108
Object Detection (SP) 3360 660
Depth Estimation (Q) 13468 3876
Style Transfer (SP) 31541 12048
Framework Core ML ONNX
Backend GPU DirectML
Sources: Geekbench [9], [10]
Results were compared using different ML frameworks

Specifications

Technical specifications of Apple A18 Pro GPU and Adreno X1-85

General

Vendor Apple Qualcomm
Build Integrated Integrated
Released September 9, 2024 October 24, 2023
Case Laptop Laptop
Purpose Generic Generic
Segment Mid-range Entry-level
Architecture Apple M GPU Adreno X1
GPU Codename Custom Adreno X1
Rival Equivalent - - Apple M4 GPU (10-Core)
Successor - - Adreno X2-90
Recommended CPU - Apple A18 Pro (MacBook) or above - Qualcomm Snapdragon X Plus (X1P-64-100) or above
Used in CPUs - Apple A18 Pro (MacBook) - Qualcomm Snapdragon X Plus (X1P-66-100)
- Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite (X1E-78-100)
- Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite (X1E-80-100)
- Qualcomm Snapdragon X Plus (X1P-64-100)
- Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite (X1E-84-100)
Laptop GPU ranking (83rd and 113th place)

Graphics Processing Unit

Base Clock - 300 MHz
Boost Clock 1490 MHz 1200-1500 MHz (configurable)
Shading Units 768 1536
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 40 96
Render Output Units (ROPs) - 48
Compute Units (Pipelines) 128 6
Ray-tracing Cores - No
L1 Cache - 192KB per cluster
L2 Cache - 1MB shared
Instructions Per Cycle 2 IPC 2 IPC

Raw Performance

Pixel Fill Rate - 58-72 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 60 GTexel/s 115-144 GTexel/s
FLOPS (FP32)
A18 Pro GPU
2.3 TFLOPS
Adreno X1-85 +100%
3.7-4.6 TFLOPS

Physical

Interface Custom IGP
TGP - 30 W
Manufacturing TSMC TSMC
Fabrication Process 3 nm 4 nm

Memory

Memory Type System Shared System Shared
Memory Clock 7500 MHz -
Bus 128-bit -
ECC No -

API

DirectX - 12.1
Vulkan - 1.3
OpenGL - 3.2
OpenCL - 3.0
CUDA - No
Ray Tracing Yes Yes
DLSS No No
DisplayPort - 1.4

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