Qualcomm Adreno 840 vs Apple M1 GPU

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Apple M1 GPU M1 GPU
Qualcomm Adreno 840 Adreno 840

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
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date10 November 2020 (5 years ago)24 September 2025 (less than a 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 cores8no data
Boost clock speedno data1200 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.

Memory typeno dataLPDDR5x
Shared memory+no data

Pros & cons summary

Recency 10 November 2020 24 September 2025

Qualcomm Adreno 840 has an age advantage of 4 years.

We couldn't decide between M1 GPU and Qualcomm Adreno 840. We've got no test results to judge.

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