Apple M1 8-Core GPU and Radeon RX 480 - video card comparison

Apple M1 8-Core GPU

Radeon RX 480

Architecture

-

Polaris (2016−2019)

GPU code name

-

Polaris 10 Ellesmere

Market segment

Laptop

Desktop

Release date

November 2020

June 2016

Bus support

-

n/a

Interface

-

PCIe 3.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

-

1x 6-pin

Bridgeless CrossFire

-

1

Boost clock speed

-

1266 MHz

Compute units

-

36

Core clock speed

1278 MHz

1120 MHz

Floating-point performance

-

5,834 gflops

Manufacturing process technology

5 nm

14 nm

Number of transistors

-

5,700 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

8

2304

Power consumption (TDP)

-

150 Watt

Texture fill rate

-

182.3

Memory type

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GDDR5

Maximum RAM amount

-

8 GB

Memory bus width

-

256 Bit

Memory clock speed

-

8000 MHz

Memory bandwidth

-

224 GB/s

Shared memory

+

-

Display Connectors

-

1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort

Eyefinity

-

1

HDMI

-

2.0

DisplayPort support

-

1.4HDR

DirectX

-

DirectX® 12

Mantle

-

n/a

OpenCL

-

2.0

OpenGL

-

4.5

Shader Model

-

6.4

Vulkan

-

+

AppAcceleration

-

n/a

CrossFire

-

1

Enduro

-

n/a

FreeSync

-

+

FRTC

-

1

HD3D

-

n/a

LiquidVR

-

1

PowerTune

-

+

TressFX

-

1

TrueAudio

-

n/a

UVD

-

+

VCE

-

+

ZeroCore

-

+