Apple M3 Pro 14-Core GPU vs L4

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking190not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency28.46no data
ArchitectureAda Lovelace (2022−2024)no data
GPU code nameAD104no data
Market segmentWorkstationLaptop
Release date21 March 2023 (1 year 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 cores742414
Core clock speed795 MHzno data
Boost clock speed2040 MHzno data
Number of transistors35,800 millionno data
Manufacturing process technology5 nm5 nm
Power consumption (TDP)72 Wattno data
Texture fill rate489.6no data
Floating-point processing power30.29 TFLOPSno data
ROPs80no data
TMUs240no data
Tensor Cores240no data
Ray Tracing Cores60no 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
Length169 mmno data
Width1-slotno data
Supplementary power connectorsNoneno 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 amount24 GBno data
Memory bus width192 Bitno data
Memory clock speed1563 MHzno data
Memory bandwidth300.1 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 ConnectorsNo outputsno data

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 Ultimate (12_2)no data
Shader Model6.8no data
OpenGL4.6no data
OpenCL3.0no data
Vulkan1.3-
CUDA8.9-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 21 March 2023 31 October 2023

Apple M3 Pro 14-Core GPU has an age advantage of 7 months.

We couldn't decide between L4 and M3 Pro 14-Core GPU. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that L4 is a workstation card while Apple M3 Pro 14-Core GPU is a notebook one.


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