Apple M1 7-Core GPU vs Quadro T1000 Mobile GDDR6

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
ArchitectureTuring (2018−2022)no data
GPU code nameTU117Bno data
Market segmentMobile workstationLaptop
Release date8 June 2020 (4 years ago)10 November 2020 (4 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 cores8967
Core clock speed1395 MHz1278 MHz
Boost clock speed1650 MHzno data
Number of transistors4,700 millionno data
Manufacturing process technology12 nm5 nm
Power consumption (TDP)50 Wattno data
Texture fill rate92.40no data
Floating-point processing power2.957 TFLOPSno data
ROPs32no data
TMUs56no 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).

InterfacePCIe 3.0 x16no 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 typeGDDR6no data
Maximum RAM amount4 GBno data
Memory bus width128 Bitno data
Memory clock speed1500 MHzno data
Memory bandwidth192.0 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 ConnectorsNo outputsno data

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (12_1)no data
Shader Model6.5no data
OpenGL4.6no data
OpenCL1.2no data
Vulkan1.2.140-
CUDA7.5-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 8 June 2020 10 November 2020
Chip lithography 12 nm 5 nm

Apple M1 7-Core GPU has an age advantage of 5 months, and a 140% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Quadro T1000 Mobile GDDR6 and Apple M1 7-Core GPU. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Quadro T1000 Mobile GDDR6 is a mobile workstation card while Apple M1 7-Core GPU is a mobile workstation one.


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NVIDIA Quadro T1000 Mobile GDDR6
Quadro T1000 Mobile GDDR6
Apple M1 7-Core GPU
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