GeForce RTX 4090 Ti vs Apple M1 Pro 14-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-10054
Architectureno dataAda Lovelace (2022−2024)
GPU code nameno dataAD102
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date10 November 2020 (4 years ago)2023 (1 year 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 cores1418176
Core clock speed1296 MHz2325 MHz
Boost clock speedno data2565 MHz
Number of transistorsno data76,300 million
Manufacturing process technology5 nm5 nm
Power consumption (TDP)15 Watt600 Watt
Texture fill rateno data1,457
Floating-point processing powerno data93.24 TFLOPS
ROPsno data192
TMUsno data568
Tensor Coresno data568
Ray Tracing Coresno data142

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 4.0 x16
Lengthno data336 mm
Widthno data3-slot
Supplementary power connectorsno data2x 16-pin

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 typeLPDDR5-6400GDDR6X
Maximum RAM amountno data24 GB
Memory bus widthno data384 Bit
Memory clock speedno data1500 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data1.15 TB/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 data1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a
HDMI-+

API compatibility

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

DirectXno data12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Modelno data6.7
OpenGLno data4.6
OpenCLno data3.0
Vulkan-1.3
CUDA-8.9

Pros & cons summary


Power consumption (TDP) 15 Watt 600 Watt

Apple M1 Pro 14-Core GPU has 3900% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Apple M1 Pro 14-Core GPU and GeForce RTX 4090 Ti. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Apple M1 Pro 14-Core GPU is a notebook card while GeForce RTX 4090 Ti is a desktop one.


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Apple M1 Pro 14-Core GPU
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