GM204 and Apple M1 GPU - video card comparison

GM204

Apple M1 GPU

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0 (2015−2019)

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GPU code name

GM204

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Market segment

Desktop

Laptop

Release date

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November 2020

Manufacturing process technology

28 nm

5 nm

Number of transistors

5,200 million

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Pipelines / CUDA cores

2048

8

Shared memory

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DirectX

12 (12_1)

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CUDA

5.2

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OpenCL

3.0

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OpenGL

4.6

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Shader Model

6.7 (6.4)

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Vulkan

1.3

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NVENC

5th Gen

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PureVideo HD

VP6

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