Mars and Apple M3 Pro 18-Core GPU - video card comparison

Mars

Apple M3 Pro 18-Core GPU

Architecture

GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)

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GPU code name

Mars

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Market segment

Desktop

Laptop

Release date

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October 2023

Manufacturing process technology

28 nm

5 nm

Number of transistors

950 million

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Pipelines / CUDA cores

384

18

Memory type

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LPDDR5-6400

Shared memory

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DirectX

12 (11_1)

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OpenCL

2.1 (1.2)

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OpenGL

4.6

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Shader Model

6.5 (5.1)

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Vulkan

1.2.170

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