Apple M1 7-Core GPU vs Radeon Instinct MI100

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking	not rated	not rated
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Architecture	CDNA 1.0 (2020)	no data
GPU code name	Arcturus	no data
Market segment	Workstation	Laptop
Release date	16 November 2020 (3 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 cores	7680	7
Core clock speed	1000 MHz	1278 MHz
Boost clock speed	1502 MHz	no data
Number of transistors	50,000 million	no data
Manufacturing process technology	7 nm	5 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	300 Watt	no data
Texture fill rate	721.0	no data
Floating-point processing power	23.07 TFLOPS	no data
ROPs	64	no data
TMUs	480	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 4.0 x16	no data
Length	267 mm	no data
Width	2-slot	no data
Supplementary power connectors	2x 8-pin	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	HBM2	no data
Maximum RAM amount	32 GB	no data
Memory bus width	4096 Bit	no data
Memory clock speed	1200 MHz	no data
Memory bandwidth	1,229 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

No outputs

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API compatibility

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

DirectX	N/A	no data
Shader Model	N/A	no data
OpenGL	N/A	no data
OpenCL	2.1	no data
Vulkan	N/A	-

Pros & cons summary

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Chip lithography

7 nm

5 nm

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