Apple M1 GPU vs Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 900

Primary details

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

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Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureGen. 3 (2005)no data
GPU code nameGMA 900no data
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date1 March 2005 (21 years ago)10 November 2020 (5 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 cores48
Boost clock speed400 MHzno data
Manufacturing process technology130 nm5 nm

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.

Shared memory-+

Pros & cons summary


Recency 1 March 2005 10 November 2020
Chip lithography 130 nm 5 nm

Apple M1 GPU has an age advantage of 15 years, and a 2500% more advanced lithography process.

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