RTX A5000 Mobile vs Apple M1 GPU

General info

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

Place in performance rankingnot rated96
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Architectureno dataAmpere (2020−2022)
GPU code nameno dataGA104
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date10 November 2020 (3 years ago)12 April 2021 (3 years ago)

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 cores86144
Core clock speedno data1215 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1770 MHz
Number of transistorsno data17,400 million
Manufacturing process technology5 nm8 nm
Power consumption (TDP)no data165 Watt (80 - 150 Watt TGP)
Texture fill rateno data302.4

Size and compatibility

Information on Apple M1 GPU and RTX A5000 Mobile compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. 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.

Laptop sizeno datalarge
Interfaceno dataPCIe 4.0 x16

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 data16 GB
Memory bus widthno data256 Bit
Memory clock speedno data14000 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data448.0 GB/s
Shared memory+-

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 dataNo outputs

API support

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

DirectXno data12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Modelno data6.6
OpenGLno data4.6
OpenCLno data3.0
Vulkanno data1.2
CUDAno data8.6

Advantages and disadvantages


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

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