Apple M1 GPU: specs and benchmarks
Summary
Apple started M1 GPU sales 10 November 2020. This is a notebook card based on 5 nm manufacturing process and primarily aimed at gamers.
Primary details
Some basic facts about Apple M1 GPU: architecture, market segment, release date etc.
| Place in the ranking | not rated | |
| Place by popularity | not in top-100 | |
| Market segment | Laptop | |
| Release date | 10 November 2020 (4 years ago) |
Detailed specifications
Apple M1 GPU's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of Apple M1 GPU's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.
| Pipelines / CUDA cores | 8 | of 21760 (GeForce RTX 5090) |
| Manufacturing process technology | 5 nm | of 3 nm (Arc Graphics 140V) |
VRAM capacity and type
Parameters of memory installed on Apple M1 GPU: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that GPUs integrated into processors have no dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM instead.
| Shared memory | + |
Benchmark performance
Synthetic benchmark performance of Apple M1 GPU. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.
GeekBench 5 Metal
Geekbench 5 is a widespread graphics card benchmark combined from 11 different test scenarios. All these scenarios rely on direct usage of GPU's processing power, no 3D rendering is involved. This variation uses Metal API by Apple.
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