CMP 40HX vs Apple M1 7-Core GPU

Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated306
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluationno data19.09
Power efficiencyno data6.62
Architectureno dataTuring (2018−2022)
GPU code nameno dataTU106
Market segmentLaptopWorkstation
Release date10 November 2020 (4 years ago)25 February 2021 (3 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)no data$699

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 cores72304
Core clock speed1278 MHz1470 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1650 MHz
Number of transistorsno data10,800 million
Manufacturing process technology5 nm12 nm
Power consumption (TDP)no data185 Watt
Texture fill rateno data237.6
Floating-point processing powerno data7.603 TFLOPS
ROPsno data64
TMUsno data144
Tensor Coresno data288
Ray Tracing Coresno data36

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 3.0 x16
Lengthno data229 mm
Widthno data2-slot
Supplementary power connectorsno data1x 8-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 typeno dataGDDR6
Maximum RAM amountno data8 GB
Memory bus widthno data256 Bit
Memory clock speedno data1750 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data448.0 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 data12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Modelno data6.6
OpenGLno data4.6
OpenCLno data3.0
Vulkan-1.2
CUDA-7.5

Pros & cons summary


Recency 10 November 2020 25 February 2021
Chip lithography 5 nm 12 nm

Apple M1 7-Core GPU has a 140% more advanced lithography process.

CMP 40HX, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 3 months.

We couldn't decide between Apple M1 7-Core GPU and CMP 40HX. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Apple M1 7-Core GPU is a notebook card while CMP 40HX is a workstation one.


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