Pitcairn and Apple M1 GPU - video card comparison

Pitcairn

Apple M1 GPU

Architecture

GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)

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GPU code name

Pitcairn

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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

2,800 million

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Pipelines / CUDA cores

1280

8

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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