Apple M3 Pro 14-Core GPU vs Apple M1 Pro 16-Core GPU

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Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot ratednot rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date10 November 2020 (4 years ago)31 October 2023 (1 year 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 cores1614
Core clock speed1296 MHzno data
Manufacturing process technology5 nm5 nm
Power consumption (TDP)10 Wattno data

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 datamedium sized

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 typeLPDDR5-6400LPDDR5-6400
Shared memory+-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 10 November 2020 31 October 2023

Apple M3 Pro 14-Core GPU has an age advantage of 2 years.

We couldn't decide between M1 Pro 16-Core GPU and M3 Pro 14-Core GPU. We've got no test results to judge.


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Apple M1 Pro 16-Core GPU
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