Apple M1 8-Core GPU and RTX A500 Mobile - video card comparison

Apple M1 8-Core GPU

RTX A500 Mobile

Architecture

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Ampere (2020−2022)

GPU code name

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GA107

Market segment

Laptop

Laptop

Release date

November 2020

March 2022

Interface

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PCIe 4.0 x16

Boost clock speed

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1537 MHz

Core clock speed

1278 MHz

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Manufacturing process technology

5 nm

8 nm

Pipelines / CUDA cores

8

2048

Power consumption (TDP)

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60 Watt (20 - 60 Watt TGP)

Texture fill rate

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98.37

Memory type

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GDDR6

Maximum RAM amount

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4 GB

Memory bus width

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64 Bit

Memory clock speed

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14000 MHz

Memory bandwidth

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96 GB/s

Shared memory

+

-

Display Connectors

-

No outputs

DirectX

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12 Ultimate (12_2)

CUDA

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8.6

OpenCL

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3.0

OpenGL

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4.6

Shader Model

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6.6

Vulkan

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1.3