Apple M1 8-core vs NVIDIA P106-100

Comparative analysis of Apple M1 8-core and NVIDIA P106-100 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, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the Apple M1 8-core

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 3 year(s) 4 month(s) later
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 5 nm vs 16 nm
  • 12x lower typical power consumption: 10 Watt vs 120 Watt
  • Around 33% higher maximum memory size: 8 GB vs 6 GB
  • 2x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames): 3723 vs 1860
  • 2x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps): 3723 vs 1860
  • 2x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 3364 vs 1680
  • 2x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 3364 vs 1680
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 10 Nov 2020 vs 19 June 2017
Manufacturing process technology 5 nm vs 16 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 10 Watt vs 120 Watt
Maximum memory size 8 GB vs 6 GB
Benchmarks
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3723 vs 1860
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3723 vs 1860
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3364 vs 1680
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3364 vs 1680

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA P106-100

  • Around 18% higher core clock speed: 1506 MHz vs 1278 MHz
  • 160x more pipelines: 1280 vs 8
  • Around 92% better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 36289 vs 18892
  • Around 23% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames): 12824 vs 10433
  • Around 23% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps): 12824 vs 10433
Specifications (specs)
Core clock speed 1506 MHz vs 1278 MHz
Pipelines 1280 vs 8
Benchmarks
Geekbench - OpenCL 36289 vs 18892
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 12824 vs 10433
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 12824 vs 10433

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: Apple M1 8-core
GPU 2: NVIDIA P106-100

Geekbench - OpenCL
GPU 1
GPU 2
18892
36289
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
10433
12824
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
10433
12824
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3723
1860
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3723
1860
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3364
1680
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3364
1680
Name Apple M1 8-core NVIDIA P106-100
Geekbench - OpenCL 18892 36289
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 10433 12824
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 10433 12824
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3723 1860
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3723 1860
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3364 1680
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3364 1680
PassMark - G3D Mark 6541
PassMark - G2D Mark 246
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 163.993
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 1705.321
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 9.266
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 76.32
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 448.036
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 4083

Compare specifications (specs)

Apple M1 8-core NVIDIA P106-100

Essentials

Launch date 10 Nov 2020 19 June 2017
Place in performance rating 423 426
Type Desktop, Laptop Desktop
Architecture Pascal
Code name GP106

Technical info

Core clock speed 1278 MHz 1506 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 5 nm 16 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 1280
Render output units 32
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 10 Watt 120 Watt
Boost clock speed 1709 MHz
Floating-point performance 4,375 gflops
Texture fill rate 136.7 GTexel / s
Transistor count 4,400 million

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 8 GB 6 GB
Memory bandwidth 66.67 GB/s 192.2 GB / s
Memory bus width 128 bit 192 Bit
Memory type LPDDR4X-4266 GDDR5
Memory clock speed 8008 MHz

Technologies

4K H264 Decode
4K H264 Encode
H265/HEVC Decode
H265/HEVC Encode

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors No outputs

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 3.0 x16
Length 250 mm
Supplementary power connectors 1x 6-pin

API support

DirectX 12.0 (12_1)
OpenGL 4.6