Apple M3 Pro 18-Core GPU vs Data Center GPU Flex 170

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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
ArchitectureGeneration 12.7 (2022−2023)no data
GPU code nameDG2-512no data
Market segmentWorkstationLaptop
Release date24 August 2022 (2 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 cores409618
Core clock speed1950 MHzno data
Boost clock speed2050 MHzno data
Number of transistors21,700 millionno data
Manufacturing process technology6 nm5 nm
Power consumption (TDP)150 Wattno data
Texture fill rate524.8no data
Floating-point processing power16.79 TFLOPSno data
ROPs128no data
TMUs256no data
Ray Tracing Cores32no 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
InterfacePCIe 4.0 x16no data
Width2-slotno data
Supplementary power connectors1x 8-pinno data

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 typeGDDR6LPDDR5-6400
Maximum RAM amount16 GBno data
Memory bus width256 Bitno data
Memory clock speed2000 MHzno data
Memory bandwidth512.0 GB/sno data
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 Connectors1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 2.0no data
HDMI+-

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX12 Ultimate (12_2)no data
Shader Model6.6no data
OpenGL4.6no data
OpenCL3.0no data
Vulkan1.3-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 24 August 2022 31 October 2023
Chip lithography 6 nm 5 nm

Apple M3 Pro 18-Core GPU has an age advantage of 1 year, and a 20% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Data Center GPU Flex 170 and M3 Pro 18-Core GPU. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Data Center GPU Flex 170 is a workstation card while Apple M3 Pro 18-Core GPU is a notebook one.


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Intel Data Center GPU Flex 170
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