M1 Chip Beats GeForce GTX 1050 Ti and Radeon RX 560 for Graphics Performance

[kcslc]

That means you dont know the diff between an gpu that is build on the chip vs that nvdidia dedicated gpu....
Tell us what integrated gpu build into the chip can come close to M1

Xbox series X smokes it and it’s technically an AMD APU.

 

[Bytor65]

The GFXBench 5.0 benchmarks were tested under Apple's Metal API, and show that the M1 often performs better than the Nvidia GeForce GTX 1050 Ti and AMD Radeon RX 560 by a fair margin. There is not yet a Metal benchmark for the GeForce GTX 1650 for the sake of comparison.

How is the GTX 1050 Ti tested under Metal??

Does Metal Run in Windows? Because I am pretty sure Pascal GPUs are NOT supported in MacOS.

 

[triangletechie]

...that’s it? 1050ti is not impressive at all

Were you expecting the base M1 to beat high end graphics card?

 

[wumpalumpa]

Absolutely! And that's why consumers contemplating the purchase of a new Acura TLX need to do so within the performance context of a BMW M8 or Porsche Turbo S.

I accept this Acura XLT as a gift, no doubt

knowing it comes from Honda is enough

I don't want BMW neither Porsche

 

[LeeW]

I get the feeling Nvidia aren't expecting Apple to 'just walk in' and make competitive graphics processors, and I get the feeling they might be surprised.

I doubt it, Nvidia more than anyone will know what is probable and possible with what Apple has been working on so this will be no surprise to them when it is no surprise to most of us.

 

[millerb7]

The M1 is beating the snot out of the Intel CPUs and now some GPUs. Now don't get me wrong. I recognize that these values may not be sustained and only win in the short term. I don't care because, before now, the Intel equivalents (and I mean equivalent in terms of low power chips) were simply pitiful and didn't even pretend to compete.

This is just the beginning. The M1 is the low end chip. Remember that!

Also remember that these GPU's they are comparing to are over 3 years old... so I'm not really seeing why we should be so excited. It's a click-bait title with **** analysis. Sure they are decent for mobile stuff - but they in no way compare to full blown dGPU's from AMD or Nvidia.

 

[jonnysods]

This is just an outstanding piece of tech for a first gen release. Of course, as most of us have stated, real world testing will be a different thing.

 

[ruka.snow]

It looks like people are missing, that this is a massive upgrade for the Air. Instead of no games, it can now play games and play them well. And with no cooler no less. It should also be a great boost to things like Capture One and Photoshop which defer a lot of rendering to the GPU now. A strong entry level GPU will make a lot of things better and Apple writes the drivers and the API for it.

 

[ani4ani]

Were you expecting the base M1 to beat high end graphics card?

Do you mean the fastest Apple Silicon available? Nothing else exists

 

[WaxedJacket]

I do feel the Mini version should be superclocked somehow. It's not relying on battery power and has a better cooling setup than the Pro & Air. Then again when has Apple propped up the Mini in any way? /sour_grapes

 

[m4mario]

What about the Vega on the high end iMacs?

We have to wait for Apple’s other processors to top that.

 

[RoundaboutRider]

Great! We can now play Frogger on Apple Arcade at 500fps!

 

[ani4ani]

For someone who doesn’t know much about graphics cards, how far is the M1 behind the PS5? How far are we until we could have next gen graphics in an Apple TV?

M1 Intergrated graphics 2.8 TFLOPS, PS5 ~ 11 TFLOPS, XBOX Series X 12 TFLOPS, Decent high-end GPU 20 TFLOPS, Fastest GPU 110 TFLOPS

 

[icolove]

Finally Macs will have good GPUs. With Nvidia's dominance and the spat between them and Apple it's been bad.

Wha? The M1 out benchmarking an entry-level card from 4-5 years ago really doesn't qualify as "good".

 

[5232152]

So what we learned here is: New chip is faster than old chip?

Gotcha

 

[citysnaps]

I accept this Acura XLT as a gift, no doubt

knowing it comes from Honda is enough

I don't want BMW neither Porsche

Well... what do you want?

 

[IamTimCook]

What’s crazy is the rumors of Apple making a dedicated GPU is starting to gain traction with code names for the dGPUs starting to be leaked.

 

[Deimo]

It looks like people are missing, that this is a massive upgrade for the Air. Instead of no games, it can now play games and play them well. And with no cooler no less. It should also be a great boost to things like Capture One and Photoshop which defer a lot of rendering to the GPU now. A strong entry level GPU will make a lot of things better and Apple writes the drivers and the API for it.

100% this. When Apple made the switch to intel, one of the selling points was how the new chips were so powerful Rosetta emulated apps could be faster than the native on the G4. This was somewhat true, but was the blueprint Apple is going with here again. By making the graphics on like for like that much faster, they have a real winner on their hands.

For comparison purposes, I just ran this benchmark on my 2018 15” MBP w/Radeon Pro 560x 4GB graphics. My not very old computer (or slow) was bested by the new entry level in all of the “high level” tests, but was able to come out victorious in the 3 “low level” ones.

 

[luckystar101]

Impressive

 

[NT1440]

Well they are benchmarking against old generation AMD, ATI cards

those cards had been released at 2017

Nowadays both AMD, Nvidia play muuuch higher

amazing chipsets for a mobile phone, no doubt

Xbox Ones Series S = 4 teraflops at 300 euros (and it includes other hardware apart from the graphic card)

Xbox One Series X = 12 teraflops

Custom PC = 20 teraflops (and isn't the highest you can get with a single video card)

And the M1 is Apple’s ENTRY LEVEL entry chip.

Why is every gamer and every data scientist on this site INSISTENT on purposely missing this point??

 

[Falhófnir]

This is a rare true step change in capability, very impressive!

I feel like the M1 performance so far seems incredibly impressive, but it also shows how little effort Apple was putting into Macs for the last few years.

It’ll definitely be interesting to see what the more powerful chips with better graphics can do though.

How little effort they were putting into designing Intel's chips for them, or?...

 

[Henk van Ess]

See also the forum: https://forums.macrumors.com/thread...ds.2267377/page-6?post=29247901#post-29247901

 

[NT1440]

All this shows is how poor Apples machine have been in the past. Especially the mac mini.

I think that really shows the industry’s inability to put high performance in a low power chip, but go off I guess?

 

[dugbug]

And somehow can only support two USB c ports??

? these two laptops always had two ports each so that was always going to be the target. You guys do complain a lot for an insanely fast fanless laptop with incredible battery life.

Wait for the M1X/Z in 2021 as they march through the mac lineup

 

[Henk van Ess]

This is Apple's series of entry machines? Can't wait for the PRO ones. Here is more: https://gfxbench.com/device.jsp?benchmark=gfx50&os=OS X&api=metal&D=Apple+M1&testgroup=overall