Apple M1 7-core vs NVIDIA Quadro 5000M

Comparative analysis of Apple M1 7-core and NVIDIA Quadro 5000M videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Memory, Technologies, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: Geekbench - OpenCL, GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark.

Apple M1 7-core

NVIDIA Quadro 5000M

Differences

Reasons to consider the Apple M1 7-core

Videocard is newer: launch date 10 year(s) 3 month(s) later
3.2x more core clock speed: 1278 MHz vs 405 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 5 nm vs 40 nm
7.1x lower typical power consumption: 14 Watt vs 100 Watt
4.6x more maximum memory size: 8 GB vs 1792 MB

Launch date	10 Nov 2020 vs 27 July 2010
Core clock speed	1278 MHz vs 405 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	5 nm vs 40 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	14 Watt vs 100 Watt
Maximum memory size	8 GB vs 1792 MB

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro 5000M

45.7x more pipelines: 320 vs 7
Around 23% better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 23008 vs 18770
Around 41% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames): 5249 vs 3723
Around 41% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps): 5249 vs 3723
2.1x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 7205 vs 3364
2.1x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 7205 vs 3364

Specifications (specs)
Pipelines	320 vs 7
Benchmarks
Geekbench - OpenCL	23008 vs 18770
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	5249 vs 3723
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	5249 vs 3723
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	7205 vs 3364
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	7205 vs 3364

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: Apple M1 7-core
GPU 2: NVIDIA Quadro 5000M

Geekbench - OpenCL

GPU 1

GPU 2

18770

23008

GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)

GPU 1

GPU 2

3723

5249

GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)

GPU 1

GPU 2

3723

5249

GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)

GPU 1

GPU 2

3364

7205

GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)

GPU 1

GPU 2

3364

7205

Name	Apple M1 7-core	NVIDIA Quadro 5000M
Geekbench - OpenCL	18770	23008
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	10433
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	10433
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	3723	5249
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	3723	5249
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3364	7205
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3364	7205
PassMark - G3D Mark		2060
PassMark - G2D Mark		426

Compare specifications (specs)

	Apple M1 7-core	NVIDIA Quadro 5000M
Essentials
Launch date	10 Nov 2020	27 July 2010
Place in performance rating	418	414
Type	Desktop, Laptop	Mobile workstation
Architecture		Fermi
Code name		GF100
Technical info
Core clock speed	1278 MHz	405 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	5 nm	40 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance	590 GFLOPS
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance	4750 GFLOPS
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance	2.290 TFLOPS
Pipelines	7	320
Render output units	28
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	14 Watt	100 Watt
Floating-point performance		518.4 gflops
Texture fill rate		16.2 GTexel / s
Transistor count		3,100 million
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	8 GB	1792 MB
Memory bandwidth	66.67 GB/s	76.8 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 bit	256 Bit
Memory type	LPDDR4X-4266	GDDR5
Memory clock speed		2400 MHz
Shared memory		0
Technologies
4K H264 Decode
4K H264 Encode
H265/HEVC Decode
H265/HEVC Encode
CUDA
DirectCompute
DirectX 11		DirectX 11
ECC (Error Correcting Code)
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors		No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface		MXM-B (3.0)
Laptop size		large
API support
DirectX		12.0 (11_0)
OpenGL		4.6