Intel Iris Xe Graphics G7 (80EU) vs Apple A18 Pro GPU

We compared two integrated laptop GPUs: the Intel Iris Xe Graphics G7 (80EU) with 80 pipelines and 640 shaders against the 4 years and 1 month newer Apple A18 Pro GPU that utilizes 128 pipelines and 768 shaders. Here you will find complete details about specs, efficiency, performance tests, and more.

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 A18 Pro GPU over Iris Xe Graphics G7 (80EU)
Reasons to consider the Apple A18 Pro GPU
  • Performs significantly better (up to 2.1x) in 3DMark Steel Nomad Lite
  • Manufactured using a more efficient 3 nm process technology
  • 21% higher maximum theoretical performance (2.3 vs 1.9 TFLOPS)
  • Achieves 2.2x more points in the GeekBench 6 Compute test (31K vs 14K)

Gaming Performance

Frame rate comparison across popular AAA titles at different resolutions

Games

FPS Table
Forza Horizon 5
21
10
-
-
-
The Witcher 3
12
9
-
-
-
Counter-Strike 2
16
11
9
-
-
Far Cry 6
13
10
-
-
-
Hogwarts Legacy
-
-
-
-
-
CoD: Modern Warfare III
12
12
10
-
-
Ghost of Tsushima
9
-
-
-
-
Shadow of the Tomb Raider
12
12
-
-
-
Average FPS by Resolution
1080p High 12 -
1080p Ultra 9 -
1440p Ultra - -
4K Ultra - -
Margin of Error Medium Low

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
Time Spy 1230 -
Solar Bay - 7365
Fire Strike 4196 -
Wild Life Extreme 2124 3949
Night Raid 15167 -
Sources: 3DMark [1], [2]

GeekBench 6 GPU Compute

GPU test for computational tasks (image processing, photography, computer vision, and ML)
GB6 Compute Score
Background Blur 31 img/sec 57.1 img/sec
Face Detection 23.3 img/sec 91.4 img/sec
Horizon Detection 0.61 Gpixels/sec 0.92 Gpixels/sec
Edge Detection 0.87 Gpixels/sec 1.21 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 0.36 Gpixels/sec 1.5 Gpixels/sec
Feature Matching 0.15 Gpixels/sec 0.45 Gpixels/sec
Stereo Matching 36.1 Gpixels/sec 84.2 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 2493.2 FPS 3061 FPS
API OpenCL Metal
Sources: Geekbench [3], [4]

Passmark Graphics

Videocard test that focuses on compute shaders, multi-texturing, tessellation, and other features
G3D Mark Score
G2D Mark 392 -
DirectX 11 16 FPS -
DirectX 12 12 FPS -
GPU Compute 1158 Ops/s -
Sources: PassMark [5] – 69410 samples

Recent User Tests

The latest benchmark tests that have been submitted by users
Intel Iris Xe Graphics G7 (80EU)
No benchmark results yet
Apple A18 Pro GPU
DateBenchmarkResult
📘 2026-10-03 -> RennsportGeekbench 7 OpenCL18863
📘 2026-04-24 -> RennsportGeekbench 6 OpenCL19670

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
GB6 ML Half Precision
GB6 ML Quantized
Image Classification (SP) 1149 3264
Image Segmentation (HP) 1796 4550
Image Super Resolution (Q) 1394 6705
Face Detection (HP) 2775 11770
Pose Estimation (Q) 5476 15548
Text Classification (SP) 981 3678
Machine Translation (HP) 905 5678
Object Detection (SP) 1277 3360
Depth Estimation (Q) 3737 13468
Style Transfer (SP) 22348 31541
Framework ONNX Core ML
Backend DirectML GPU
Sources: Geekbench [9], [10]
Results were compared using different ML frameworks

Specifications

Technical specifications of Intel Iris Xe Graphics G7 (80EU) and Apple A18 Pro GPU

General

Vendor Intel Apple
Build Integrated Integrated
Released August 15, 2020 September 9, 2024
Case Laptop Laptop
Purpose Generic Generic
Segment Entry-level Mid-range
Architecture Generation 12.1 Apple M GPU
GPU Codename Tiger Lake GT2 Custom
Recommended CPU - Intel Core i5 1130G7 or above - Apple A18 Pro (MacBook) or above
Used in CPUs - Intel Core 5 220U
- Intel Core 5 220H
- Intel Core i5 1334U
- Intel Core 5 120U
- Intel Core i5 1335U
- Intel Core i5 1345U
- Intel Core i5 1340P
- Intel Core i5 13500H
- and 14 more
- Apple A18 Pro (MacBook)
Laptop GPU ranking (134th and 83rd place)

Graphics Processing Unit

Base Clock 300 MHz -
Boost Clock 850-1500 MHz (configurable) 1490 MHz
Shading Units 640 768
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 40 40
Render Output Units (ROPs) 20 -
Compute Units (Pipelines) 80 128
Tensor Cores No -
Ray-tracing Cores No -
L2 Cache 1024KB shared -
Instructions Per Cycle 2 IPC 2 IPC

Raw Performance

Pixel Fill Rate 17-30 GPixel/s -
Texture Fill Rate 34-60 GTexel/s 60 GTexel/s
FLOPS (FP32)
2.3 TFLOPS

Physical

Interface Ring Bus Custom
TGP 15 W -
Manufacturing Intel TSMC
Fabrication Process 10 nm 3 nm
Die Size 146 mm² -

Memory

Memory Type System Shared System Shared
Memory Size System RAM Dependent -
Memory Clock System RAM Dependent 7500 MHz
Effective Memory Speed System RAM Dependent -
Bus - 128-bit
ECC No No

API

DirectX 12 -
Vulkan 1.2 -
OpenGL 4.6 -
OpenCL 2.1 -
Ray Tracing No Yes
DLSS No No

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