Apple A12 Bionic vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Max-Q

Comparative analysis of Apple A12 Bionic and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Max-Q videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Memory, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

Apple A12 Bionic

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Max-Q

Differences

Reasons to consider the Apple A12 Bionic

Around 44% higher core clock speed: 1125 MHz vs 780 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 7 nm vs 8 nm

Core clock speed	1125 MHz vs 780 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	7 nm vs 8 nm

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Max-Q

Videocard is newer: launch date 2 year(s) 3 month(s) later
1536x more pipelines: 6144 vs 4

Launch date	12 Jan 2021 vs 21 Sep 2018
Pipelines	6144 vs 4

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: Apple A12 Bionic
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Max-Q

Name	Apple A12 Bionic	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Max-Q
PassMark - G3D Mark		16477
PassMark - G2D Mark		642
Geekbench - OpenCL		98850
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)		26045
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)		3719
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		3359
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)		26045
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)		3719
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		3359
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score		12007

Compare specifications (specs)

	Apple A12 Bionic	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Max-Q
Essentials
Launch date	21 Sep 2018	12 Jan 2021
Place in performance rating	not rated	124
Architecture		Ampere
Code name		GA104
Type		Laptop
Technical info
Core clock speed	1125 MHz	780 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	7 nm	8 nm
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance	576.0 GFLOPS	15.30 TFLOPS
Pipelines	4	6144
Render output units	16
Boost clock speed		1245 MHz
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance		239.0 GFLOPS (1:64)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance		15.30 TFLOPS (1:1)
Pixel fill rate		119.5 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate		239.0 GTexel/s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)		80 Watt
Transistor count		17400 million
Memory
Memory bandwidth	34.1 GB/s	384.0 GB/s
Memory bus width	64 bit	256 bit
Memory type	LPDDR4X-4266	GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount		8 GB
Memory clock speed		1500 MHz, 12 Gbps effective
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors		Portable Device Dependent
DisplayPort support
G-SYNC support
HDMI
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface		PCIe 4.0 x16
Laptop size		large
Supplementary power connectors		None
API support
DirectX		12 Ultimate (12_2)
OpenCL		3.0
OpenGL		4.6
Shader Model		6.7
Vulkan
Technologies
GPU Boost
VR Ready