Apple 10-Core M3 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Full Specs

Summary

1,280 Shaders 1.34GHz	1,280 Shaders 1.71GHz
Shared Memory102.4GB/sLPDDR5	6GB GDDR5192GB/s placeholder
Peak·FP32·FP16 3.42 TFLOPS	Peak·FP32·FP16 4.37 TFLOPS
Form Factor iGPU	Form Factor PCIe Card
TDP Shared	TDP 120W
Power Connectors -	Power Connectors 1x 6-Pin

Theoretical Performance

Clock Speed1338MHz UC·Boost·OC	Clock Speed1708MHz UC·Base·Boost·OC
Peak OPS 3.42 TFLOPSFP16	Peak OPS 4.37 TFLOPSFP32
FP32 3.42 TFLOPS	FP32 4.37 TFLOPS
-	FP64 136.6 GFLOPS
Pixel Rate 53.5 GPixel/s	Pixel Rate 82 GPixel/s
Texture Rate 107 GTexel/s	Texture Rate 136.6 GTexel/s

Core Config

Shaders 1,280 Shaders	Shaders 1,280 Shaders
TMUs 80 TMUs	TMUs 80 TMUs
ROPs 40 ROPs	ROPs 48 ROPs
RT Cores 10 RT-Cores	RT Cores -
EUs 160 EUs	SMs 10 SMs

Clocks

Base Clock -	Base Clock 1.51GHz
Boost Clock 1.34GHz	Boost Clock 1.71GHz

Cache

L2 Cache 2MB shared

L2 Cache 1.5MB shared

Memory

Shared MemoryLPDDR5	6GB GDDR5 placeholder
Memory Bus 128-bit	Memory Bus 192-bit
Memory Speed 6.4GT/s	Memory Speed 8GT/s
Memory Bandwidth 102.4GB/s	Memory Bandwidth 192GB/s
ECC No	ECC No

Power & Thermals

TDP Shared

TDP 120W

Video Output

Multi-Monitor 1

Multi-Monitor 3

Ports

-	3x DisplayPort 1.4 1x HDMI 2.0 1x DVI-D Dual-Link

Encoder

Encoder Model Apple Media Engine 3	Encoder Model NVENC 4
Codec AVC (H.264) HEVC (H.265) ProRes	Codec AVC (H.264) HEVC (H.265) -

Decoder

Decoder Model Apple Media Engine 3	Decoder Model NVDEC 3
Codec - - - - - AVC (H.264) HEVC (H.265) AV1 ProRes	Codec MPEG-1 MPEG-2 MPEG-4 VC-1 VP9 AVC (H.264) HEVC (H.265) - -

Card

Form Factor iGPU	Form Factor PCIe Card
PCIe -	PCIe 2-Slots
-	Height 112 mm (4.41") Width 250 mm (9.84") Depth 40 mm (1.57")
Cooling Open-Air -	Cooling Blower 1x Fan
Power Connectors -	Power Connectors 1x 6-Pin

Chip

Manufacturer Apple	Manufacturer NVIDIA
Chip Designer Apple	Chip Designer NVIDIA
Architecture Apple Gen 6	Architecture Pascal
Family M Series	Family GeForce 10
Branding	Branding
Codename G15G	Codename NV136
Chip Variant -	Chip Variant GP106-300-A1
Market Segment Laptop	Market Segment Desktop
Release Date Oct 30, 2023	Release Date Jul 19, 2016

Fabrication

Foundry TSMC	Foundry TSMC
Fabrication Node N3B	Fabrication Node 16FF
Die Size 153mm²	Die Size 200mm²
Transistor Count 25 Billion	Transistor Count 4.4 Billion
Transistor Density 164 MTr/mm²	Transistor Density 22 MTr/mm²

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