GeForce RTX 4090 D vs Apple M1 Pro 16-Core GPU

Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated2
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluationno data17.65
Power efficiencyno data15.39
Architectureno dataAda Lovelace (2022−2024)
GPU code nameno dataAD102
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date10 November 2020 (4 years ago)28 December 2023 (less than a year ago)
Launch price (MSRP)no data$1,599

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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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 cores1614592
Core clock speed1296 MHz2280 MHz
Boost clock speedno data2520 MHz
Number of transistorsno data76,300 million
Manufacturing process technology5 nm5 nm
Power consumption (TDP)10 Watt425 Watt
Texture fill rateno data1,149
Floating-point processing powerno data73.54 TFLOPS
ROPsno data176
TMUsno data456
Tensor Coresno data456
Ray Tracing Coresno data114

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 data304 mm
Widthno data3-slot
Supplementary power connectorsno data1x 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 data1313 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data1,008 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 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


Recency 10 November 2020 28 December 2023
Power consumption (TDP) 10 Watt 425 Watt

Apple M1 Pro 16-Core GPU has 4150% lower power consumption.

RTX 4090 D, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 3 years.

We couldn't decide between Apple M1 Pro 16-Core GPU and GeForce RTX 4090 D. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Apple M1 Pro 16-Core GPU is a notebook card while GeForce RTX 4090 D is a desktop one.


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Apple M1 Pro 16-Core GPU
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