ROG Ally Extreme GPU vs Apple M1 8-Core GPU

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking360not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Architectureno dataRDNA 3.0 (2022−2024)
GPU code nameno dataPhoenix
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date10 November 2020 (4 years ago)13 June 2023 (1 year ago)
Launch price (MSRP)no data$699

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 cores8768
Core clock speed1278 MHz1500 MHz
Boost clock speedno data2700 MHz
Number of transistorsno data25,390 million
Manufacturing process technology5 nm4 nm
Power consumption (TDP)no data30 Watt
Texture fill rateno data129.6
Floating-point processing powerno data8.294 TFLOPS
ROPsno data32
TMUsno data48
Ray Tracing Coresno data12

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).

Lengthno data280 mm
Supplementary power connectorsno dataNone

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 dataLPDDR5
Maximum RAM amountno data16 GB
Memory bus widthno data64 Bit
Memory clock speedno data1600 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data51.2 GB/s
Shared memory+no data

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 data1x USB Type-C

API compatibility

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

DirectXno data12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Modelno data6.7
OpenGLno data4.6
OpenCLno data2.1
Vulkan-1.3

Pros & cons summary


Recency 10 November 2020 13 June 2023
Chip lithography 5 nm 4 nm

ROG Ally Extreme GPU has an age advantage of 2 years, and a 25% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between M1 8-Core GPU and ROG Ally Extreme GPU. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Apple M1 8-Core GPU is a notebook card while ROG Ally Extreme GPU is a desktop one.


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