Arc A380 vs Apple M1 GPU

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Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated334
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluationno data44.12
Power efficiencyno data14.75
Architectureno dataGeneration 12.7 (2022−2023)
GPU code nameno dataDG2-128
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date10 November 2020 (4 years ago)14 June 2022 (2 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)no data$149

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 cores81024
Core clock speedno data2000 MHz
Boost clock speedno data2050 MHz
Number of transistorsno data7,200 million
Manufacturing process technology5 nm6 nm
Power consumption (TDP)no data75 Watt
Texture fill rateno data131.2
Floating-point processing powerno data4.198 TFLOPS
ROPsno data32
TMUsno data64
Tensor Coresno data128
Ray Tracing Coresno 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 dataPCIe 4.0 x8
Lengthno data222 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 data6 GB
Memory bus widthno data96 Bit
Memory clock speedno data1937 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data186.0 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 data1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 2.0
HDMI-+

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-1.3

Pros & cons summary


Recency 10 November 2020 14 June 2022
Chip lithography 5 nm 6 nm

Apple M1 GPU has a 20% more advanced lithography process.

Arc A380, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 1 year.

We couldn't decide between Apple M1 GPU and Arc A380. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Apple M1 GPU is a notebook card while Arc A380 is a desktop one.


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