GeForce 940M and Apple M1 GPU - video card comparison

GeForce 940M

Apple M1 GPU

Architecture

Maxwell (2014−2018)

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GPU code name

N16S-GT-S/B

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Market segment

Laptop

Laptop

Release date

March 2015

November 2020

Bus support

PCI Express 3.0

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Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

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Boost clock speed

1176 MHz

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Core clock speed

1072 MHz

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Floating-point performance

903.2 gflops

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Manufacturing process technology

28 nm

5 nm

Number of transistors

1,870 million

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Pipelines / CUDA cores

384

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Power consumption (TDP)

75 Watt

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Texture fill rate

28.22

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Memory type

DDR3

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Maximum RAM amount

4 GB

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Memory bus width

64 Bit

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Memory clock speed

2000 MHz

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Memory bandwidth

14.4 GB/s

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Shared memory

-

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Display Connectors

No outputs

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DirectX

12 (11_0)

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CUDA

+

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OpenCL

1.2

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OpenGL

4.5

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Shader Model

5.1

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Vulkan

1.1.126

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GameWorks

+

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GPU Boost

2.0

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Optimus

+

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