Apple M4 16-core GPU vs RTX 5000 Ada Generation

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking12not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency20.91no data
ArchitectureAda Lovelace (2022−2024)no data
GPU code nameAD102no data
Market segmentWorkstationDesktop
Release date9 August 2023 (1 year ago)no data (2024 years 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 cores1280016
Core clock speed1155 MHzno data
Boost clock speed2550 MHzno data
Number of transistors76,300 millionno data
Manufacturing process technology5 nmno data
Power consumption (TDP)250 Wattno data
Texture fill rate1,020no data
Floating-point processing power65.28 TFLOPSno data
ROPs176no data
TMUs400no data
Tensor Cores400no data
Ray Tracing Cores100no 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).

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 typeGDDR6LPDDR5x-8533
Maximum RAM amount32 GBno data
Memory bus width256 Bitno data
Memory clock speed2250 MHzno data
Memory bandwidth576.0 GB/sno data

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 Model6.8no data
OpenGL4.6no data
OpenCL3.0no data
Vulkan1.3-
CUDA8.9-

Pros & cons summary


We couldn't decide between RTX 5000 Ada Generation and Apple M4 16-core GPU. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that RTX 5000 Ada Generation is a workstation graphics card while Apple M4 16-core GPU is a desktop one.


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