Arc A580 vs Apple M1 7-Core GPU

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Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the rankingnot rated184
Place by popularitynot in top-10067
Power efficiencyno data11.91
Architectureno dataGeneration 12.7 (2022−2023)
GPU code nameno dataDG2-512
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date10 November 2020 (4 years ago)10 October 2023 (1 year ago)

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores73072
Core clock speed1278 MHz1700 MHz
Boost clock speedno data2000 MHz
Number of transistorsno data21,700 million
Manufacturing process technology5 nm6 nm
Power consumption (TDP)no data175 Watt
Texture fill rateno data384.0
Floating-point processing powerno data12.29 TFLOPS
ROPsno data96
TMUsno data192
Tensor Coresno data384
Ray Tracing Coresno data24

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

Interfaceno dataPCIe 4.0 x16
Widthno data2-slot
Supplementary power connectorsno data2x 8-pin

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeno dataGDDR6
Maximum RAM amountno data8 GB
Memory bus widthno data256 Bit
Memory clock speedno data2000 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data512.0 GB/s
Shared memory+-

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectorsno data1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 2.0
HDMI-+

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectXno data12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Modelno data6.6
OpenGLno data4.6
OpenCLno data3.0
Vulkan-1.3

Pros & cons summary


Recency 10 November 2020 10 October 2023
Chip lithography 5 nm 6 nm

Apple M1 7-Core GPU has a 20% more advanced lithography process.

Arc A580, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 2 years.

We couldn't decide between Apple M1 7-Core GPU and Arc A580. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Apple M1 7-Core GPU is a notebook card while Arc A580 is a desktop one.


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