Apple M1 7-Core GPU vs Qualcomm Adreno 685

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking827not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency24.88no data
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date6 December 2018 (6 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 coresno data7
Core clock speedno data1278 MHz
Manufacturing process technology7 nm5 nm
Power consumption (TDP)7 Wattno 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.

Shared memory++

API compatibility

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DirectX12no data

Pros & cons summary


Recency 6 December 2018 10 November 2020
Chip lithography 7 nm 5 nm

Apple M1 7-Core GPU has an age advantage of 1 year, and a 40% more advanced lithography process.

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