A10 PCIe vs Apple M1 GPU

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Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot ratednot rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Architectureno dataAmpere (2020−2024)
GPU code nameno dataGA102
Market segmentLaptopWorkstation
Release date10 November 2020 (3 years ago)12 April 2021 (3 years 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 cores89216
Core clock speedno data885 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1695 MHz
Number of transistorsno data28,300 million
Manufacturing process technology5 nm8 nm
Power consumption (TDP)no data150 Watt
Texture fill rateno data488.2
Floating-point processing powerno data31.24 TFLOPS
ROPsno data96
TMUsno data288
Tensor Coresno data288
Ray Tracing Coresno data72

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
Lengthno data267 mm
Widthno data1-slot
Supplementary power connectorsno data8-pin EPS

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 data24 GB
Memory bus widthno data384 Bit
Memory clock speedno data1563 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data600.2 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 dataNo outputs

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-1.2
CUDA-8.6

Pros & cons summary


Recency 10 November 2020 12 April 2021
Chip lithography 5 nm 8 nm

Apple M1 GPU has a 60% more advanced lithography process.

A10 PCIe, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 5 months.

We couldn't decide between Apple M1 GPU and A10 PCIe. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Apple M1 GPU is a notebook card while A10 PCIe is a workstation one.


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