RTX 2000 Ada Generation 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 rated73
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluationno data83.51
Power efficiencyno data45.42
Architectureno dataAda Lovelace (2022−2024)
GPU code nameno dataAD107
Market segmentLaptopWorkstation
Release date17 January 2023 (1 year ago)12 February 2024 (less than a year ago)
Launch price (MSRP)no data$649

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 cores382816
Core clock speedno data1620 MHz
Boost clock speedno data2130 MHz
Number of transistorsno data18,900 million
Manufacturing process technology5 nm5 nm
Power consumption (TDP)53 Watt70 Watt
Texture fill rateno data187.4
Floating-point processing powerno data12 TFLOPS
ROPsno data48
TMUsno data88
Tensor Coresno data88
Ray Tracing Coresno data22

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 x8
Lengthno data168 mm
Widthno data2-slot
Supplementary power connectorsno dataNone

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 typeLPDDR5-6400GDDR6
Maximum RAM amountno data16 GB
Memory bus widthno data128 Bit
Memory clock speedno data2000 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data256.0 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 data4x mini-DisplayPort 1.4a

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 12 February 2024
Power consumption (TDP) 53 Watt 70 Watt

Apple M2 Max 38-Core GPU has 32.1% lower power consumption.

RTX 2000 Ada Generation, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 1 year.

We couldn't decide between M2 Max 38-Core GPU and RTX 2000 Ada Generation. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Apple M2 Max 38-Core GPU is a notebook card while RTX 2000 Ada Generation is a workstation one.


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Apple M2 Max 38-Core GPU
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