Apple M1 7-Core GPU vs NVIDIA Quadro RTX 6000

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General info

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

Place in performance ranking56not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Value for money9.94no data
ArchitectureTuring (2018−2021)no data
GPU code nameTU102no data
Market segmentWorkstationLaptop
Release date13 August 2018 (5 years old)10 November 2020 (3 years old)
Launch price (MSRP)$6,299 no data
Current price$3083 (0.5x MSRP)no data
Value for money

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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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 cores46087
Core clock speed1440 MHz1278 MHz
Boost clock speed1770 MHzno data
Number of transistors18,600 millionno data
Manufacturing process technology12 nm5 nm
Power consumption (TDP)260 Wattno data
Texture fill rate509.8no data

Size and compatibility

Information on Quadro RTX 6000 and Apple M1 7-Core GPU compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop video cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility). 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.

InterfacePCIe 3.0 x16no data
Length267 mmno data
Width2-slotno data
Supplementary power connectors1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pinno data

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 typeGDDR6no data
Maximum RAM amount24 GBno data
Memory bus width384 Bitno data
Memory clock speed14000 MHzno data
Memory bandwidth672.0 GB/sno data
Shared memoryno data+

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 Connectors4x DisplayPort, 1x USB Type-Cno data

API support

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

DirectX12 Ultimate (12_1)no data
Shader Model6.5no data
OpenGL4.6no data
OpenCL2.0no data
Vulkan1.2.131no data
CUDA7.5no data

Advantages and disadvantages


Recency 13 August 2018 10 November 2020
Chip lithography 12 nm 5 nm

We couldn't decide between Quadro RTX 6000 and Apple M1 7-Core GPU. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Quadro RTX 6000 is a workstation card while Apple M1 7-Core GPU is a notebook one.


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