GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER vs Apple M2 Max 30-Core GPU

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Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated9
Place by popularitynot in top-10012
Cost-effectiveness evaluationno data67.39
Power efficiencyno data24.37
Architectureno dataAda Lovelace (2022−2024)
GPU code nameno dataAD104
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date17 January 2023 (1 year ago)8 January 2024 (less than a year ago)
Launch price (MSRP)no data$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 cores307168
Core clock speedno data1980 MHz
Boost clock speedno data2475 MHz
Number of transistorsno data35,800 million
Manufacturing process technology5 nm5 nm
Power consumption (TDP)no data220 Watt
Texture fill rateno data554.4
Floating-point processing powerno data35.48 TFLOPS
ROPsno data80
TMUsno data224
Tensor Coresno data224
Ray Tracing Coresno data56

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).

Laptop sizemedium sizedno data
Interfaceno dataPCIe 4.0 x16
Lengthno data267 mm
Widthno data2-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 data12 GB
Memory bus widthno data192 Bit
Memory clock speedno data1313 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data504.2 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 17 January 2023 8 January 2024

RTX 4070 SUPER has an age advantage of 11 months.

We couldn't decide between Apple M2 Max 30-Core GPU and GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Apple M2 Max 30-Core GPU is a notebook card while GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER is a desktop one.


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