Arc A770M vs Apple M1 Max 32-Core GPU

Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated186
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiencyno data17.50
Architectureno dataGeneration 12.7 (2022−2023)
GPU code nameno dataDG2-512
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date10 November 2020 (4 years ago)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 cores324096
Core clock speed1296 MHz1650 MHz
Boost clock speedno data2050 MHz
Number of transistorsno data21,700 million
Manufacturing process technology5 nm6 nm
Power consumption (TDP)44 Watt120 Watt
Texture fill rateno data524.8
Floating-point processing powerno data16.79 TFLOPS
ROPsno data128
TMUsno data256
Tensor Coresno data512
Ray Tracing Coresno data32

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).

Laptop sizeno datalarge
Interfaceno dataPCIe 4.0 x16

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 data16 GB
Memory bus width512 Bit256 Bit
Memory clock speedno data2000 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data512.0 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 dataPortable Device Dependent

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


Chip lithography 5 nm 6 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 44 Watt 120 Watt

Apple M1 Max 32-Core GPU has a 20% more advanced lithography process, and 172.7% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Apple M1 Max 32-Core GPU and Arc A770M. We've got no test results to judge.


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