Apple M1 8-Core GPU and A100 PCIe - video card comparison

Apple M1 8-Core GPU

A100 PCIe

Architecture

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Ampere (2020−2022)

GPU code name

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GA100

Market segment

Laptop

Desktop

Release date

November 2020

June 2020

Interface

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PCIe 4.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

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1x 8-pin

Core clock speed

1278 MHz

1410 MHz

Manufacturing process technology

5 nm

7 nm

Number of transistors

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54,200 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

8

6912

Power consumption (TDP)

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250 Watt

Texture fill rate

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609.1

Memory type

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HBM2e

Maximum RAM amount

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40 GB

Memory bus width

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5120 Bit

Memory clock speed

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2.4 GB/s

Memory bandwidth

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1,555 GB/s

Shared memory

+

-

Display Connectors

-

No outputs

DirectX

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12 Ultimate (12_2)

CUDA

-

8.0

OpenCL

-

2.0

OpenGL

-

4.6

Shader Model

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6.5

Vulkan

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1.2