The Apple M3 Pro 18-Core GPU is a self-designed graphics card in the Apple M3 Pro (with 12 CPU cores) and offers all eighteen cores available on the chip. The graphics card uses a new architecture and now offers dynamic caching, mesh shading and ray tracing acceleration.
The GPU can access up to 36 GB LPDDR5-6400 unified memory via a 192-bit memory bus (max 150 GBit/s). Thanks to dynamic caching, the GPU only reserves as much memory as is required.
The entire chip is manufactured in the current 3nm process (probably N3B) at TSMC.
The Apple M1 GPU is an integrated graphics card offering 7 cores (1 deactivated core in the entry MacBook Air) designed by Apple and integrated in the Apple M1 SoC. According to Apple it is faster and more energy efficient as competing products (like the Tiger Lake Xe GPU). The peak performance of the high end variant with 8 cores is 2.6 teraflops, therefore the 7 core version should offer around 2.3 teraflops. Thanks to the unified memory architecture it should have fast access to the RAM.
The Apple M1 is manufactured in the modern 5nm process at TSMC and should offer an excellent energy efficiency.
Average Benchmarks Apple M3 Pro 18-Core GPU → 100%n=10
Average Benchmarks Apple M1 7-Core GPU → 33%n=10
- Range of benchmark values for this graphics card - Average benchmark values for this graphics card * Smaller numbers mean a higher performance 1 This benchmark is not used for the average calculation
Game Benchmarks
The following benchmarks stem from our benchmarks of review laptops. The performance depends on the used graphics memory, clock rate, processor, system settings, drivers, and operating systems. So the results don't have to be representative for all laptops with this GPU. For detailed information on the benchmark results, click on the fps number.
[X]Apple MacBook Air 2020 M1 Entry Apple M1 2.1GHz M1 7-Core GPU Problem during benchmarking occured: small graphical problems smog not perfect min: 88 fps, max: 102 fps
[X]Apple MacBook Air 2020 M1 Entry Apple M1 2.1GHz M1 7-Core GPU Problem during benchmarking occured: severe graphical problems black squares min: 22 fps, max: 28 fps
[X]Apple MacBook Air 2020 M1 Entry Apple M1 2.1GHz M1 7-Core GPU Problem during benchmarking occured: severe graphical problems min: 15 fps, max: 19 fps