Apple M2 Max 30-Core GPU vs GeForce RTX 4060 Mobile

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking	74	not rated
Place by popularity	51	not in top-100
Power efficiency	27.26	no data
Architecture	Ada Lovelace (2022−2024)	no data
GPU code name	AD107	no data
Market segment	Laptop	Laptop
Release date	3 January 2023 (1 year ago)	17 January 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 cores	3072	30
Core clock speed	1545 MHz	no data
Boost clock speed	1890 MHz	no data
Manufacturing process technology	4 nm	5 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	115 Watt	no data
Texture fill rate	181.4	no data
Floating-point processing power	11.61 TFLOPS	no data
ROPs	32	no data
TMUs	96	no data
Tensor Cores	96	no data
Ray Tracing Cores	24	no data

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 size	large	medium sized
Interface	PCIe 4.0 x16	no data

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 type	GDDR6	LPDDR5-6400
Maximum RAM amount	8 GB	no data
Memory bus width	128 Bit	no data
Memory clock speed	2000 MHz	no data
Memory bandwidth	256.0 GB/s	no data
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 Connectors

Portable Device Dependent

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API compatibility

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

DirectX	12 Ultimate (12_2)	no data
Shader Model	6.7	no data
OpenGL	4.6	no data
OpenCL	3.0	no data
Vulkan	1.3	-
CUDA	8.9	-

Pros & cons summary

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Chip lithography

4 nm

5 nm

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