Jetson Nano 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 ratednot rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Architectureno dataMaxwell 2.0 (2014−2019)
GPU code nameno dataGM20B
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date17 January 2023 (1 year ago)March 2019 (5 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)no data$99

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 cores30128
Core clock speedno data640 MHz
Boost clock speedno data921 MHz
Number of transistorsno data2,000 million
Manufacturing process technology5 nm20 nm
Power consumption (TDP)no data10 Watt
Texture fill rateno data14.74
Floating-point processing powerno data0.2358 TFLOPS
ROPsno data16
TMUsno data16

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 2.0 x4

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 typeLPDDR5-6400LPDDR4
Maximum RAM amountno data4 GB
Memory bus widthno data64 Bit
Memory clock speedno data1600 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data25.6 GB/s
Shared memory+no data

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 dataPortable Device Dependent

API compatibility

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

DirectXno data12 (12_1)
Shader Modelno data6.0
OpenGLno data4.6
OpenCLno data1.2
Vulkan-1.1
CUDA-5.3

Pros & cons summary


Chip lithography 5 nm 20 nm

Apple M2 Max 30-Core GPU has a 300% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between M2 Max 30-Core GPU and Jetson Nano. We've got no test results to judge.


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