Arc A310 vs Apple M1 Max 32-Core GPU

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Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated368
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiencyno data13.05
Architectureno dataGeneration 12.7 (2022−2023)
GPU code nameno dataDG2-128
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date10 November 2020 (4 years ago)12 October 2022 (2 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 cores32768
Core clock speed1296 MHz2000 MHz
Boost clock speedno data2000 MHz
Number of transistorsno data7,200 million
Manufacturing process technology5 nm6 nm
Power consumption (TDP)44 Watt75 Watt
Texture fill rateno data64.00
Floating-point processing powerno data3.072 TFLOPS
ROPsno data16
TMUsno data32
Tensor Coresno data96
Ray Tracing Coresno data6

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
Widthno data1-slot
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 typeLPDDR5-6400GDDR6
Maximum RAM amountno data4 GB
Memory bus width512 Bit64 Bit
Memory clock speedno data1937 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data124.0 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-1.3

Pros & cons summary


Recency 10 November 2020 12 October 2022
Chip lithography 5 nm 6 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 44 Watt 75 Watt

Apple M1 Max 32-Core GPU has a 20% more advanced lithography process, and 70.5% lower power consumption.

Arc A310, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 1 year.

We couldn't decide between Apple M1 Max 32-Core GPU and Arc A310. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Apple M1 Max 32-Core GPU is a notebook card while Arc A310 is a desktop one.


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