NVIDIA A40 PCIe vs Apple M1 GPU

General info

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

Place in performance rankingnot ratednot rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Architectureno dataAmpere (2020−2022)
GPU code nameno dataGA102
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date10 November 2020 (3 years old)5 October 2020 (3 years old)
Current priceno data$4099

Technical specs

General performance parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider their benchmark and gaming test results. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores810752
Boost clock speedno data1755 MHz
Number of transistorsno data28,300 million
Manufacturing process technology5 nm8 nm
Power consumption (TDP)no data300 Watt
Texture fill rateno data589.7

Size and compatibility

Information on Apple M1 GPU and A40 PCIe compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop video cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility). For notebook video cards it's notebook size, connection slot and bus, if the video card is inserted into a slot instead of being soldered to the notebook motherboard.

Interfaceno dataPCIe 4.0 x16
Lengthno data267 mm
Widthno data2-slot
Supplementary power connectorsno data8-pin EPS

Memory

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 data48 GB
Memory bus widthno data384 Bit
Memory clock speedno data14.5 GB/s
Memory bandwidthno data695.8 GB/s
Shared memory+no data

Video outputs and ports

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 data3x DisplayPort

API support

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

DirectXno data12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Modelno data6.5
OpenGLno data4.6
OpenCLno data2.0
Vulkanno data1.2
CUDAno data8.6

Advantages and disadvantages


Recency 10 November 2020 5 October 2020
Chip lithography 5 nm 8 nm

We couldn't decide between Apple M1 GPU and A40 PCIe. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Apple M1 GPU is a notebook card while A40 PCIe is a desktop one.


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