Apple M3 Max 40-Core GPU vs L40S

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking65not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency11.20no data
ArchitectureAda Lovelace (2022−2024)no data
GPU code nameAD102no data
Market segmentWorkstationLaptop
Release date13 October 2022 (2 years ago)31 October 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 cores1817640
Core clock speed1110 MHzno data
Boost clock speed2520 MHzno data
Number of transistors76,300 millionno data
Manufacturing process technology5 nm5 nm
Power consumption (TDP)300 Watt53 Watt
Texture fill rate1,431no data
Floating-point processing power91.61 TFLOPSno data
ROPs192no data
TMUs568no data
Tensor Cores568no data
Ray Tracing Cores142no 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
Length267 mmno data
Width2-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 typeGDDR6LPDDR5-6400
Maximum RAM amount48 GBno data
Memory bus width384 Bitno data
Memory clock speed2250 MHzno data
Memory bandwidth864.0 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 Model6.7no data
OpenGL4.6no data
OpenCL3.0no data
Vulkan1.3-
CUDA8.9-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 13 October 2022 31 October 2023
Power consumption (TDP) 300 Watt 53 Watt

Apple M3 Max 40-Core GPU has an age advantage of 1 year, and 466% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between L40S and Apple M3 Max 40-Core GPU. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that L40S is a workstation card while Apple M3 Max 40-Core GPU is a notebook one.


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