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Apple M1 GPU

Eight graphics cores on the M1 die, rated by Apple at 2.6 TFLOP/s of throughput and sharing the processor's memory rather than owning any.

Manufacturer
Apple
Architecture
Apple integrated graphics
Introduced
November 2020
Record status
approved

Figures

Apple M1 GPU: recorded figures

provisional A figure marked provisional is recorded but not accepted: its evidence is unsettled. It may rely on one source, an unconfirmed announcement, or a digit read from a damaged scan. The reason appears under the figure. The catalog shows the figure but never uses it in a multiplier. How records are judged.

Metric Value Evidence Basis Method Source
Peak FP32 rate gpu provisional 2.6 TFLOP/s Confirmed Vendor-rated Theoretical peak Stated by the vendor "2.6 teraflops of throughput" for the eight graphics cores, stated on the day the chip was announced. Recorded as single precision, which Apple does not state: the same editorial reading, and the same reason for provisional status, as the Dreamcast's and the PlayStations' floating-point figures. With no clock and no operations-per-cycle published, it cannot be reconciled with the eight graphics cores it belongs to.
Geekbench Compute score, metal gpu 31 387 Confirmed Measured Benchmark chart average Published independently geekbench-compute 6 , metal A dated capture of the benchmark publisher’s rolling average for this graphics processor, read from the 18 July 2026 Metal chart. It may be compared only with another Geekbench 6 Metal figure from this curation round, never with an OpenCL figure, a later version or a processor score. The chart also lists this processor under “Apple M1 GPU”, at 32 442; the row naming the product as its maker does was taken, and the disagreement is recorded in the conflict ledger.
Geekbench Compute score, opencl gpu 17 592 Confirmed Measured Benchmark chart average Published independently geekbench-compute 7 , opencl A dated capture of the benchmark publisher’s rolling average for this graphics processor, read from the 25 July 2026 OpenCL chart. Version 7 calibrates a compute result against a baseline of 100,000, so it may be compared only with another Geekbench 7 OpenCL figure from this curation round, never with a Metal figure, an earlier version or a processor score. The chart also lists this processor under “Apple M1 (G13G B1)”, at 13 136; the row naming the product as its maker does was taken, and the disagreement is recorded in the conflict ledger.

Conflicting sources

Geekbench Compute score

  1. 31 387 accepted

    Device and Score table, row "Apple M1": 31387.

  2. 32 442

    Device and Score table, row "Apple M1 GPU": 32442.

Editorial decision 2026-08-18

The chart keys its rows on the string a driver reports, so one product reaches it under several names with several averages. The rule this catalog applies, here and in every later round: take the row that names the product as its maker names it, and treat a string carrying tokens the maker does not use — a “GPU” suffix, a die designation, another company’s prefix — as the driver’s name rather than the product’s. Apple sells a processor called the M1 and nothing called the “Apple M1 GPU”, so the unsuffixed row is the product’s. The two averages differ by three percent, which is what splitting one population of uploads across two labels does to a mean; neither is more measured than the other, and taking the higher one because it is higher would be the whole reason this ledger exists.

Geekbench Compute score

  1. 17 592 accepted

    Device and Score table, row "Apple M1": 17592.

  2. 13 136

    Device and Score table, row "Apple M1 (G13G B1)": 13136.

Editorial decision 2026-08-18

The chart keys its rows on the string a driver reports, so one product reaches it under several names with several averages. The rule this catalog applies, here and in every later round: take the row that names the product as its maker names it, and treat a string carrying tokens the maker does not use — a “GPU” suffix, a die designation, another company’s prefix — as the driver’s name rather than the product’s. G13G B1 is the die and stepping of the M1’s graphics processor, not a product Apple offers. The gap here is a quarter of the score, which is larger than a labeling split alone explains and is a further reason to prefer the row holding the bulk of the uploads rather than to average the two.

Fitted to

Editorial notes

Apple's phrase is "the GPU in M1", so this is a section of a die rather than a separate part; it is a component of its own here because the catalog's kinds are `cpu`, `gpu` and `memory` and one record cannot carry both a core count and a graphics-core count.

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