RTX 4000 Ada Generation Mobile vs Apple M2 Max 38-Core GPU

Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated33
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiencyno data27.65
Architectureno dataAda Lovelace (2022−2024)
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date17 January 2023 (1 year ago)21 March 2023 (1 year ago)

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 cores387424
Manufacturing process technology5 nm5 nm
Power consumption (TDP)53 Watt150 Watt (60 - 150 Watt TGP)

Form factor & compatibility

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Laptop sizemedium sizedlarge

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 data12 GB
Memory bus widthno data192 Bit
Memory clock speedno data16000 MHz
Shared memory--

API compatibility

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

DirectXno data12 Ultimate

Pros & cons summary


Recency 17 January 2023 21 March 2023
Power consumption (TDP) 53 Watt 150 Watt

Apple M2 Max 38-Core GPU has 183% lower power consumption.

RTX 4000 Ada Generation Mobile, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 2 months.

We couldn't decide between Apple M2 Max 38-Core GPU and RTX 4000 Ada Generation Mobile. We've got no test results to judge.


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Apple M2 Max 38-Core GPU
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NVIDIA RTX 4000 Ada Generation Mobile
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