Apple M1 Pro 16-Core GPU vs FirePro D300

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking	440	not rated
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Power efficiency	4.70	no data
Architecture	GCN 1.0 (2011−2020)	no data
GPU code name	Pitcairn	no data
Market segment	Workstation	Laptop
Release date	18 January 2014 (10 years ago)	10 November 2020 (3 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 cores	1280	16
Core clock speed	850 MHz	1296 MHz
Number of transistors	2,800 million	no data
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	5 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	150 Watt	10 Watt
Texture fill rate	68.00	no data
Floating-point processing power	2.176 TFLOPS	no data
ROPs	32	no data
TMUs	80	no 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).

Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	no data
Length	242 mm	no data
Width	1-slot	no 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 type	GDDR5	LPDDR5-6400
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB	no data
Memory bus width	256 Bit	no data
Memory clock speed	1270 MHz	no data
Memory bandwidth	162.6 GB/s	no 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 Connectors

4x DisplayPort

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API compatibility

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

DirectX	12 (11_1)	no data
Shader Model	5.1	no data
OpenGL	4.6	no data
OpenCL	1.2	no data
Vulkan	1.2.131	-

Pros & cons summary

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Recency	18 January 2014	10 November 2020
Chip lithography	28 nm	5 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	150 Watt	10 Watt

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