Intel UHD Graphics 770 vs Apple A18 Pro GPU

We compared two integrated laptop GPUs: the Intel UHD Graphics 770 with 32 pipelines and 256 shaders against the 2 years and 10 months 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
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 UHD Graphics 770
Reasons to consider the Apple A18 Pro GPU
  • Performs significantly better (up to 3x) in 3DMark Steel Nomad Lite
  • Manufactured using a more efficient 3 nm process technology
  • 2.9x higher maximum theoretical performance (2.3 vs 0.8 TFLOPS)
  • Achieves 3.8x more points in the GeekBench 6 Compute test (31K vs 8K)
  • Has 3x more shading units (768 vs 256)

Gaming Performance

Frame rate comparison across popular AAA titles at different resolutions

Games

FPS Table
Forza Horizon 5
16
-
-
-
-
The Witcher 3
-
-
-
-
-
Counter-Strike 2
14
10
-
-
-
Far Cry 6
10
-
-
-
-
CoD: Modern Warfare III
-
-
-
-
-
Ghost of Tsushima
9
-
-
-
-
Shadow of the Tomb Raider
-
-
-
-
-
Average FPS by Resolution
1080p High 9 -
1080p Ultra - -
1440p Ultra - -
4K Ultra - -
Margin of Error Low 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
A18 Pro GPU +201%
1794
Time Spy 809 -
Solar Bay - 7365
Fire Strike 2899 -
Wild Life Extreme 1960 3949
Night Raid 11888 -
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 +280%
31229
Background Blur 17.9 img/sec 57.1 img/sec
Face Detection 11.6 img/sec 91.4 img/sec
Horizon Detection 0.32 Gpixels/sec 0.92 Gpixels/sec
Edge Detection 0.51 Gpixels/sec 1.21 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 0.31 Gpixels/sec 1.5 Gpixels/sec
Feature Matching 0.1 Gpixels/sec 0.45 Gpixels/sec
Stereo Matching 20.2 Gpixels/sec 84.2 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 1156.4 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 551 -
DirectX 11 11 FPS -
DirectX 12 9 FPS -
GPU Compute 816 Ops/s -
Sources: PassMark [5] – 13496 samples

Blender

Rendering performance test for 3D modeling
Blender GPU
Sources: Blender [9] – 2 samples

Recent User Tests

The latest benchmark tests that have been submitted by users
Intel UHD Graphics 770
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) - 3264
Image Segmentation (HP) - 4550
Image Super Resolution (Q) - 6705
Face Detection (HP) - 11770
Pose Estimation (Q) - 15548
Text Classification (SP) - 3678
Machine Translation (HP) - 5678
Object Detection (SP) - 3360
Depth Estimation (Q) - 13468
Style Transfer (SP) - 31541
Framework - Core ML
Backend - GPU
Sources: Geekbench [9], [10]

Specifications

Technical specifications of Intel UHD Graphics 770 and Apple A18 Pro GPU

General

Vendor Intel Apple
Build Integrated Integrated
Released November 4, 2021 September 9, 2024
Case Laptop Laptop
Purpose Generic Generic
Segment Entry-level Mid-range
Architecture Generation 12.2 Apple M GPU
GPU Codename Alder Lake GT1 Custom
Recommended CPU - Intel Core i5 12500 or above - Apple A18 Pro (MacBook) or above
Used in CPUs - Intel Core i7 14700HX
- Intel Core i7 14650HX
- Intel Core i5 14500HX
- Intel Core i9 14900KS
- Intel Core i9 14900
- Intel Core i7 14700
- Intel Core i5 14600
- Intel Core i5 14500
- and 24 more
- Apple A18 Pro (MacBook)
Laptop GPU ranking (136th and 83rd place)

Graphics Processing Unit

Base Clock 300 MHz -
Boost Clock 1350-1650 MHz (configurable) 1490 MHz
Shading Units 256 768
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 16 40
Render Output Units (ROPs) 8 -
Compute Units (Pipelines) 32 128
Tensor Cores No -
Ray-tracing Cores No -
Instructions Per Cycle 2 IPC 2 IPC

Raw Performance

Pixel Fill Rate 11-13 GPixel/s -
Texture Fill Rate 22-26 GTexel/s 60 GTexel/s
FLOPS (FP32)
0.7-0.8 TFLOPS
A18 Pro GPU +187%
2.3 TFLOPS

Physical

Interface Ring Bus Custom
TGP 15 W -
Manufacturing Intel TSMC
Fabrication Process 10 nm 3 nm
Max. Temperature 100°C -

Memory

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

API

DirectX 12 -
Vulkan 1.2 -
OpenGL 4.6 -
OpenCL 3.0 -
Ray Tracing No Yes
DLSS No No
DisplayPort 1.4a -

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