M3 and Apple M1 GPU - video card comparison

M3

Apple M1 GPU

Architecture

Rage 4 (1998−1999)

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GPU code name

M3

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Market segment

Desktop

Laptop

Release date

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November 2020

Manufacturing process technology

250 nm

5 nm

Number of transistors

8 million

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Pipelines / CUDA cores

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8

Shared memory

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+

DirectX

6.0

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OpenCL

N/A

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OpenGL

1.2

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Vulkan

N/A

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