Apple M1 8-core vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 (Laptop)

Comparative analysis of Apple M1 8-core and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 (Laptop) videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Memory, Technologies, 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 - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark, 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

Apple M1 8-core

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 (Laptop)

Differences

Reasons to consider the Apple M1 8-core

Videocard is newer: launch date 1 year(s) 6 month(s) later
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 5 nm vs 12 nm
2x more maximum memory size: 8 GB vs 4 GB

Launch date	10 Nov 2020 vs 23 April 2019
Manufacturing process technology	5 nm vs 12 nm
Maximum memory size	8 GB vs 4 GB

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 (Laptop)

Around 9% higher core clock speed: 1395 MHz vs 1278 MHz
112x more pipelines: 896 vs 8

Core clock speed	1395 MHz vs 1278 MHz
Pipelines	896 vs 8

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: Apple M1 8-core
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 (Laptop)

Name	Apple M1 8-core	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 (Laptop)
Geekbench - OpenCL	18993
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	10433
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	10433
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	3723
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	3723
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3364
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3364
PassMark - G2D Mark		384
PassMark - G3D Mark		6968
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score		3438

Compare specifications (specs)

	Apple M1 8-core	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 (Laptop)
Essentials
Launch date	10 Nov 2020	23 April 2019
Place in performance rating	420	277
Type	Desktop, Laptop
Architecture		Turing
Code name		TU117
Technical info
Core clock speed	1278 MHz	1395 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	5 nm	12 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance	650 GFLOPS
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance	5200 GFLOPS
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance	2.617 TFLOPS
Pipelines	8	896
Render output units	32
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	10 Watt
Boost clock speed		1560 MHz
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	8 GB	4 GB
Memory bandwidth	66.67 GB/s
Memory bus width	128 bit	128 bit
Memory type	LPDDR4X-4266	GDDR5
Memory clock speed		8000 MHz
Technologies
4K H264 Decode
4K H264 Encode
H265/HEVC Decode
H265/HEVC Encode
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Laptop size		medium sized
API support
DirectX		12.1