Apple 16-Core M1 Pro vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop 115W Full Specs

Summary

2,048 Shaders 1.3GHz	3,840 Shaders 1.7GHz
Shared Memory204.8GB/sLPDDR5	6GB GDDR6336GB/s placeholder
Peak·FP32·FP16 5.31 TFLOPS	Peak·FP32·FP16 13.07 TFLOPS
Form Factor iGPU	Form Factor Soldered
TDP Shared	TDP 115W

Highlights

Peak OPS

Peak OPS FP32 FP16 Tensor FP16-16 FP16-16 Tensor Sparse Tensor FP16-32 FP16-32 Tensor Sparse FP64 BF16 Tensor BF16 BF16 Tensor Sparse Tensor TF32 Tensor INT8 Tensor INT4 Memory Bandwidth TDP

16-Core M1 Pro5.31 TFLOPSFP16

x1

GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop 115W418.3 TOPSINT4 Tensor Sparse

x78.80

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Theoretical Performance

Clock Speed1296MHz UC·Boost·OC	Clock Speed1702MHz UC·Base·Boost·OC
Peak OPS 5.31 TFLOPSFP16	Peak OPS 418.3 TOPSINT4 Tensor Sparse
-	Tensor FP16-16 52.29 TFLOPS FP16-16 Tensor Sparse 104.6 TFLOPS Tensor FP16-32 26.14 TFLOPS FP16-32 Tensor Sparse 52.29 TFLOPS
-	BF16 13.07 TFLOPS Tensor BF16 26.14 TFLOPS BF16 Tensor Sparse 52.29 TFLOPS
Tensor TF32 -	Tensor TF32 13.07 TFLOPS
FP32 5.31 TFLOPS	FP32 13.07 TFLOPS
-	FP64 204.2 GFLOPS
Tensor INT4 -	Tensor INT4 209.1 TOPS
-	Tensor INT8 104.6 TOPS
Ray -	Ray 19.71 TOPS
Pixel Rate 82.9 GPixel/s	Pixel Rate 81.7 GPixel/s
Texture Rate 165.9 GTexel/s	Texture Rate 204.2 GTexel/s

Core Config

Shaders 2,048 Shaders	Shaders 3,840 Shaders
TMUs 128 TMUs	TMUs 120 TMUs
ROPs 64 ROPs	ROPs 48 ROPs
Tensor Cores -	Tensor Cores 120 T-Cores
RT Cores -	RT Cores 30 RT-Cores
EUs 256 EUs	SMs 30 SMs

Clocks

Base Clock -	Base Clock 1.39GHz
Boost Clock 1.3GHz	Boost Clock 1.7GHz

Cache

L2 Cache 2MB shared

L2 Cache 3.1MB shared

Memory

Shared MemoryLPDDR5	6GB GDDR6 placeholder
Memory Bus 256-bit	Memory Bus 192-bit
Memory Speed 6.4GT/s	Memory Speed 14GT/s
Memory Bandwidth 204.8GB/s	Memory Bandwidth 336GB/s
ECC No	ECC No

Power & Thermals

TDP Shared

TDP 115W

Video Output

Multi-Monitor 2	Multi-Monitor 3
HDCP -	HDCP HDCP 2.3

Encoder

Encoder Model Apple Media Engine 2

Encoder Model NVENC 7

Decoder

Decoder Model Apple Media Engine 2

Decoder Model NVDEC 5

Card

Form Factor iGPU

Form Factor Soldered

Chip

Manufacturer Apple	Manufacturer NVIDIA
Chip Designer Apple	Chip Designer NVIDIA
Architecture Apple Gen 4	Architecture Ampere
Family M Series	Family GeForce 30
Branding	Branding
Codename G13S	Codename NV176
Chip Variant -	Chip Variant GA106-150-KA-A1
Market Segment Laptop	Market Segment Laptop
Release Date Oct 26, 2021	Release Date Feb 25, 2021

Fabrication

Foundry TSMC	Foundry Samsung
Fabrication Node N5	Fabrication Node 8N
Die Size 253mm²	Die Size 276mm²
Transistor Count 33.7 Billion	Transistor Count 13.3 Billion
Transistor Density 133 MTr/mm²	Transistor Density 48.01 MTr/mm²

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Used In

CPUs M1 Pro (10C16G)	CPUs -
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All-in-Ones -	All-in-Ones Envy 34(Early 2022)

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