Apple M3 Pro 14-Core GPU vs GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking5not rated
Place by popularity61not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation38.29no data
Power efficiency19.05no data
ArchitectureAda Lovelace (2022−2024)no data
GPU code nameAD103no data
Market segmentDesktopLaptop
Release date8 January 2024 (less than a year ago)31 October 2023 (1 year ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$999 no data

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 cores1024014
Core clock speed2295 MHzno data
Boost clock speed2550 MHzno data
Number of transistors45,900 millionno data
Manufacturing process technology5 nm5 nm
Power consumption (TDP)320 Wattno data
Texture fill rate816.0no data
Floating-point processing power52.22 TFLOPSno data
ROPs112no data
TMUs320no data
Tensor Cores320no data
Ray Tracing Cores80no 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 sizeno datamedium sized
InterfacePCIe 4.0 x16no data
Length310 mmno data
Width3-slotno data
Supplementary power connectors1x 16-pinno 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 typeGDDR6XLPDDR5-6400
Maximum RAM amount16 GBno data
Memory bus width256 Bitno data
Memory clock speed1438 MHzno data
Memory bandwidth736.3 GB/sno 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 Connectors1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4ano data
HDMI+-

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 Ultimate (12_2)no data
Shader Model6.8no data
OpenGL4.6no data
OpenCL3.0no data
Vulkan1.3-
CUDA8.9-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 8 January 2024 31 October 2023

RTX 4080 SUPER has an age advantage of 2 months.

We couldn't decide between GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER and Apple M3 Pro 14-Core GPU. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER is a desktop card while Apple M3 Pro 14-Core GPU is a notebook one.


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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER
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