Apple M1 GPU vs Quadro RTX 8000 Passive

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking	not rated	not rated
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Architecture	Turing (2018−2022)	no data
GPU code name	TU102	no data
Market segment	Workstation	Laptop
Release date	13 August 2018 (6 years ago)	10 November 2020 (4 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)	$9,999	no data

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 cores	4608	8
Core clock speed	1230 MHz	no data
Boost clock speed	1620 MHz	no data
Number of transistors	18,600 million	no data
Manufacturing process technology	12 nm	5 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	260 Watt	no data
Texture fill rate	466.6	no data
Floating-point processing power	14.93 TFLOPS	no data
ROPs	96	no data
TMUs	288	no data
Tensor Cores	576	no data
Ray Tracing Cores	72	no data

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).

Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	no data
Length	267 mm	no data
Width	2-slot	no data
Supplementary power connectors	1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin	no data

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 type	GDDR6	no data
Maximum RAM amount	48 GB	no data
Memory bus width	384 Bit	no data
Memory clock speed	1750 MHz	no data
Memory bandwidth	672.0 GB/s	no data
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 Connectors

4x DisplayPort, 1x USB Type-C

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API compatibility

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

DirectX	12 Ultimate (12_1)	no data
Shader Model	6.5	no data
OpenGL	4.6	no data
OpenCL	2.0	no data
Vulkan	1.2.131	-
CUDA	7.5	-

Pros & cons summary

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

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