VIA Castle Rock vs Apple M1 8-Core GPU

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking362not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
GPU code nameno dataCLE266
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date10 November 2020 (3 years ago)1 January 2003 (21 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 cores83
Core clock speed1278 MHz2 MHz
Manufacturing process technology5 nmno data

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.

Shared memory++

Pros & cons summary


Recency 10 November 2020 1 January 2003

Apple M1 8-Core GPU has an age advantage of 17 years.

We couldn't decide between Apple M1 8-Core GPU and VIA Castle Rock. We've got no test results to judge.


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