Radeon HD 6310 vs Apple M1 8-Core GPU

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking356not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Architectureno dataTeraScale 2 (2009−2015)
GPU code nameno dataLoveland
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date10 November 2020 (4 years ago)9 November 2010 (14 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 cores880
Core clock speed1278 MHz276 MHz
Number of transistorsno data450 million
Manufacturing process technology5 nm40 nm
Power consumption (TDP)no data18 Watt
Texture fill rateno data2.208
Floating-point processing powerno data0.04416 TFLOPS
ROPsno data4
TMUsno data8

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 dataIGP

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 dataSystem Shared
Maximum RAM amountno dataSystem Shared
Memory bus widthno dataSystem Shared
Memory clock speedno dataSystem Shared
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 data11.2 (11_0)
Shader Modelno data5.0
OpenGLno data4.4
OpenCLno data1.2
Vulkan-N/A

Pros & cons summary


Recency 10 November 2020 9 November 2010
Chip lithography 5 nm 40 nm

Apple M1 8-Core GPU has an age advantage of 10 years, and a 700% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Apple M1 8-Core GPU and Radeon HD 6310. We've got no test results to judge.


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