A100 PCIe 40 GB vs Apple M1 Pro 16-Core 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 dataGA100
Market segmentLaptopWorkstation
Release date10 November 2020 (4 years ago)22 June 2020 (4 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 cores166912
Core clock speed1296 MHz765 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1410 MHz
Number of transistorsno data54,200 million
Manufacturing process technology5 nm7 nm
Power consumption (TDP)10 Watt250 Watt
Texture fill rateno data609.1
Floating-point processing powerno data19.49 TFLOPS
ROPsno data160
TMUsno data432
Tensor Coresno data432

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 data2-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 typeLPDDR5-6400HBM2e
Maximum RAM amountno data40 GB
Memory bus widthno data5120 Bit
Memory clock speedno data1215 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data1,555 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 dataN/A
Shader Modelno dataN/A
OpenGLno dataN/A
OpenCLno data3.0
Vulkan-N/A
CUDA-8.0

Pros & cons summary


Recency 10 November 2020 22 June 2020
Chip lithography 5 nm 7 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 10 Watt 250 Watt

Apple M1 Pro 16-Core GPU has an age advantage of 4 months, a 40% more advanced lithography process, and 2400% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between M1 Pro 16-Core GPU and A100 PCIe 40 GB. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Apple M1 Pro 16-Core GPU is a notebook card while A100 PCIe 40 GB is a workstation one.


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Apple M1 Pro 16-Core GPU
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