Apple M1 Ultra 48-core vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 (Laptop)

Comparative analysis of Apple M1 Ultra 48-core and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 (Laptop) videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Memory, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: Geekbench - OpenCL, 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), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

Apple M1 Ultra 48-core

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 (Laptop)

Differences

Reasons to consider the Apple M1 Ultra 48-core

Videocard is newer: launch date 5 year(s) 7 month(s) later
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 5 nm vs 16 nm
Around 50% lower typical power consumption: 120 Watt vs 180 Watt
Around 71% better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 95143 vs 55548

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	18 Mar 2022 vs 15 August 2016
Manufacturing process technology	5 nm vs 16 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	120 Watt vs 180 Watt
Benchmarks
Geekbench - OpenCL	95143 vs 55548

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 (Laptop)

Around 24% higher core clock speed: 1607 MHz vs 1296 MHz
53.3x more pipelines: 2560 vs 48

Core clock speed	1607 MHz vs 1296 MHz
Pipelines	2560 vs 48

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: Apple M1 Ultra 48-core
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 (Laptop)

Geekbench - OpenCL

GPU 1

GPU 2

95143

55548

Name	Apple M1 Ultra 48-core	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 (Laptop)
Geekbench - OpenCL	95143	55548
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)		150.103
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)		2036.763
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)		14.035
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)		27.417
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)		819.934
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)		20151
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)		4646
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		4195
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)		20151
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)		4646
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		4195
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score		7209

Compare specifications (specs)

	Apple M1 Ultra 48-core	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 (Laptop)
Essentials
Launch date	18 Mar 2022	15 August 2016
Place in performance rating	177	254
Architecture		Pascal
Code name		GP104
Launch price (MSRP)		$499.99
Price now		$439.99
Type		Laptop
Value for money (0-100)		43.70
Technical info
Core clock speed	1296 MHz	1607 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	5 nm	16 nm
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance	15.925 TFLOPS
Pipelines	48	2560
Render output units	192
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	120 Watt	180 Watt
Boost clock speed		1771 MHz
CUDA cores		2560
Floating-point performance		9,068 gflops
Maximum GPU temperature		94 °C
Texture fill rate		283.4 GTexel / s
Transistor count		7,200 million
Memory
Memory bandwidth	819.2 GB/s	320 GB / s
Memory bus width	1024 bit	256 Bit
Memory type	LPDDR5-6400	GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount		8 GB
Memory clock speed		10 GB/s
Shared memory		0
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors		DP 1.42, HDMI 2.0b, DL-DVI
G-SYNC support
Multi monitor support
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Bus support		PCIe 3.0
Interface		PCIe 3.0 x16
Laptop size		large
API support
DirectX		12.0 (12_1)
OpenGL		4.5
Vulkan
Technologies
3D Vision
Ansel
CUDA
GPU Boost
Multi Monitor
Multi-Projection
ShadowWorks
SLI
Virtual Reality
VR Ready