Apple M2 Max 38-Core GPU vs Quadro RTX A6000

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking38not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation10.47no data
Power efficiency13.39no data
ArchitectureAmpere (2020−2024)no data
GPU code nameGA102no data
Market segmentWorkstationLaptop
Release date5 October 2020 (4 years ago)17 January 2023 (1 year ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$4,649 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 cores1075238
Core clock speed1410 MHzno data
Boost clock speed1800 MHzno data
Number of transistors28,300 millionno data
Manufacturing process technology8 nm5 nm
Power consumption (TDP)300 Watt53 Watt
Texture fill rate604.8no data
Floating-point processing power38.71 TFLOPSno data
ROPs112no data
TMUs336no data
Tensor Cores336no data
Ray Tracing Cores84no 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 connectors8-pin EPSno 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 speed2000 MHzno data
Memory bandwidth768.0 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 Connectors4x DisplayPort 1.4ano data

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-
CUDA8.6-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 5 October 2020 17 January 2023
Chip lithography 8 nm 5 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 300 Watt 53 Watt

Apple M2 Max 38-Core GPU has an age advantage of 2 years, a 60% more advanced lithography process, and 466% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Quadro RTX A6000 and M2 Max 38-Core GPU. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Quadro RTX A6000 is a workstation card while Apple M2 Max 38-Core GPU is a notebook one.


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NVIDIA Quadro RTX A6000
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