Apple M1 GPU vs Tesla T4

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking198not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency27.73no data
ArchitectureTuring (2018−2022)no data
GPU code nameTU104no data
Market segmentWorkstationLaptop
Release date13 September 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 cores25608
Core clock speed585 MHzno data
Boost clock speed1590 MHzno data
Number of transistors13,600 millionno data
Manufacturing process technology12 nm5 nm
Power consumption (TDP)70 Wattno data
Texture fill rate254.4no data
Floating-point processing power8.141 TFLOPSno data
ROPs64no data
TMUs160no data
Tensor Cores320no data
Ray Tracing Cores40no 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
Length168 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 typeGDDR6no data
Maximum RAM amount16 GBno data
Memory bus width256 Bitno data
Memory clock speed1250 MHzno data
Memory bandwidth320.0 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 Ultimate (12_1)no data
Shader Model6.5no data
OpenGL4.6no data
OpenCL1.2no data
Vulkan1.2.131-
CUDA7.5-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 13 September 2018 10 November 2020
Chip lithography 12 nm 5 nm

Apple M1 GPU has an age advantage of 2 years, and a 140% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Tesla T4 and Apple M1 GPU. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Tesla T4 is a workstation card while Apple M1 GPU is a notebook one.


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