GeForce RTX 4080 vs Apple M1 Pro 14-Core GPU

Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated3
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluationno data28.93
Power efficiencyno data19.39
Architectureno dataAda Lovelace (2022−2024)
GPU code nameno dataAD103
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date10 November 2020 (4 years ago)20 September 2022 (2 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)no data$1,199

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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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 cores149728
Core clock speed1296 MHz2205 MHz
Boost clock speedno data2505 MHz
Number of transistorsno data45,900 million
Manufacturing process technology5 nm5 nm
Power consumption (TDP)15 Watt320 Watt
Texture fill rateno data761.5
Floating-point processing powerno data48.74 TFLOPS
ROPsno data112
TMUsno data304
Tensor Coresno data304
Ray Tracing Coresno data76

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 data310 mm
Widthno data3-slot
Supplementary power connectorsno data1x 16-pin

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 typeLPDDR5-6400GDDR6X
Maximum RAM amountno data16 GB
Memory bus widthno data256 Bit
Memory clock speedno data1400 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data716.8 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 data1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a
HDMI-+

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectXno data12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Modelno data6.7
OpenGLno data4.6
OpenCLno data3.0
Vulkan-1.3
CUDA-8.9

Pros & cons summary


Recency 10 November 2020 20 September 2022
Power consumption (TDP) 15 Watt 320 Watt

Apple M1 Pro 14-Core GPU has 2033.3% lower power consumption.

RTX 4080, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 1 year.

We couldn't decide between Apple M1 Pro 14-Core GPU and GeForce RTX 4080. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Apple M1 Pro 14-Core GPU is a notebook card while GeForce RTX 4080 is a desktop one.


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Apple M1 Pro 14-Core GPU
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