Apple M1 7-Core GPU vs Tesla K80

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking346not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency3.51no data
ArchitectureKepler 2.0 (2013−2015)no data
GPU code nameGK210no data
Market segmentWorkstationLaptop
Release date17 November 2014 (9 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 cores24967
Core clock speed562 MHz1278 MHz
Boost clock speed824 MHzno data
Number of transistors7,100 millionno data
Manufacturing process technology28 nm5 nm
Power consumption (TDP)300 Wattno data
Texture fill rate171.4no data
Floating-point processing power4.113 TFLOPSno data
ROPs48no data
TMUs208no 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
Length267 mmno data
Width2-slotno data
Supplementary power connectors1x 8-pinno 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 typeGDDR5no data
Maximum RAM amount12 GBno data
Memory bus width384 Bitno data
Memory clock speed1253 MHzno data
Memory bandwidth240.6 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 (11_1)no data
Shader Model5.1no data
OpenGL4.6no data
OpenCL1.2no data
Vulkan1.1.126-
CUDA3.7-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 17 November 2014 10 November 2020
Chip lithography 28 nm 5 nm

Apple M1 7-Core GPU has an age advantage of 5 years, and a 460% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Tesla K80 and Apple M1 7-Core GPU. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Tesla K80 is a workstation card while Apple M1 7-Core GPU is a notebook one.


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NVIDIA Tesla K80
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