Apple M1 7-Core GPU vs Cayman

Primary details

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

Place in performance ranking	740	not rated
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Architecture	TeraScale 3 (2010−2013)	no data
GPU code name	Cayman	no data
Market segment	Desktop	Laptop
Release date	no data	10 November 2020 (3 years ago)

Detailed specifications

General performance parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider their benchmark and gaming test results. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores	1536	7
Core clock speed	no data	1278 MHz
Number of transistors	2,640 million	no data
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	5 nm

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.

Shared memory

no data

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API compatibility

List of supported graphics and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX	11.2 (11_0)	no data
Shader Model	5.0	no data
OpenGL	4.4	no data
OpenCL	1.2	no data
Vulkan	N/A	-

Pros & cons summary

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Chip lithography

40 nm

5 nm

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