GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER vs Apple M2 Max 38-Core GPU

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Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated5
Place by popularitynot in top-10061
Cost-effectiveness evaluationno data38.32
Power efficiencyno data19.08
Architectureno dataAda Lovelace (2022−2024)
GPU code nameno dataAD103
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date17 January 2023 (1 year ago)8 January 2024 (less than a year ago)
Launch price (MSRP)no data$999

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 cores3810240
Core clock speedno data2295 MHz
Boost clock speedno data2550 MHz
Number of transistorsno data45,900 million
Manufacturing process technology5 nm5 nm
Power consumption (TDP)53 Watt320 Watt
Texture fill rateno data816.0
Floating-point processing powerno data52.22 TFLOPS
ROPsno data112
TMUsno data320
Tensor Coresno data320
Ray Tracing Coresno data80

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 data310 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 data16 GB
Memory bus widthno data256 Bit
Memory clock speedno data1438 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data736.3 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 data6.8
OpenGLno data4.6
OpenCLno data3.0
Vulkan-1.3
CUDA-8.9

Pros & cons summary


Recency 17 January 2023 8 January 2024
Power consumption (TDP) 53 Watt 320 Watt

Apple M2 Max 38-Core GPU has 503.8% lower power consumption.

RTX 4080 SUPER, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 11 months.

We couldn't decide between M2 Max 38-Core GPU and GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Apple M2 Max 38-Core GPU is a notebook card while GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER is a desktop one.


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Apple M2 Max 38-Core GPU
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