H100 SXM5 vs Apple M1 Max 32-Core GPU

Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the rankingnot ratednot rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Architectureno dataHopper (2022−2023)
GPU code nameno dataGH100
Market segmentLaptopWorkstation
Release date10 November 2020 (4 years ago)22 March 2022 (2 years ago)

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores328448
Core clock speed1296 MHz1065 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1780 MHz
Number of transistorsno data80,000 million
Manufacturing process technology5 nm4 nm
Power consumption (TDP)44 Watt700 Watt
Texture fill rateno data939.8
Floating-point processing powerno data30.07 TFLOPS
ROPsno data24
TMUsno data528
Tensor Coresno data528

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

Interfaceno dataPCIe 5.0 x16
Supplementary power connectorsno data8-pin EPS

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeLPDDR5-6400HBM3
Maximum RAM amountno data80 GB
Memory bus width512 Bit5120 Bit
Memory clock speedno data1500 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data1,920 GB/s
Shared memory--

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectorsno dataNo outputs

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectXno dataN/A
Shader Modelno dataN/A
OpenGLno dataN/A
OpenCLno data3.0
Vulkan-N/A
CUDA-9.0

Pros & cons summary


Recency 10 November 2020 22 March 2022
Chip lithography 5 nm 4 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 44 Watt 700 Watt

Apple M1 Max 32-Core GPU has 1490.9% lower power consumption.

H100 SXM5, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 1 year, and a 25% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Apple M1 Max 32-Core GPU and H100 SXM5. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Apple M1 Max 32-Core GPU is a notebook card while H100 SXM5 is a workstation one.


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