Apple M1 Max 24-core vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Mobile

Comparative analysis of Apple M1 Max 24-core and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Mobile videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Memory, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: Geekbench - OpenCL, GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark, 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

Apple M1 Max 24-core

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Mobile

Differences

Reasons to consider the Apple M1 Max 24-core

11.5x lower typical power consumption: 10 Watt vs 115 Watt

Thermal Design Power (TDP)	10 Watt vs 115 Watt

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Mobile

Videocard is newer: launch date 4 year(s) 1 month(s) later
Around 19% higher core clock speed: 1545 MHz vs 1296 MHz
128x more pipelines: 3072 vs 24
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 4 nm vs 5 nm
Around 34% better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 89106 vs 66710

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	2023 vs 26 Oct 2021
Core clock speed	1545 MHz vs 1296 MHz
Pipelines	3072 vs 24
Manufacturing process technology	4 nm vs 5 nm
Benchmarks
Geekbench - OpenCL	89106 vs 66710

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: Apple M1 Max 24-core
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Mobile

Geekbench - OpenCL

GPU 1

GPU 2

66710

89106

Name	Apple M1 Max 24-core	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Mobile
Geekbench - OpenCL	66710	89106
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	25004
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	25004
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	7440
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	7440
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	6721
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	6721
PassMark - G2D Mark		732
PassMark - G3D Mark		17566
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score		2255

Compare specifications (specs)

	Apple M1 Max 24-core	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Mobile
Essentials
Launch date	26 Oct 2021	2023
Place in performance rating	122	123
Architecture		Ada Lovelace
Code name		AD107
Technical info
Core clock speed	1296 MHz	1545 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	5 nm	4 nm
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance	7.962 TFLOPS	11.61 TFLOPS
Pipelines	24	3072
Render output units	96
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	10 Watt	115 Watt
Boost clock speed		1890 MHz
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance		181.4 GFLOPS (1:64)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance		11.61 TFLOPS (1:1)
Pixel fill rate		60.48 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate		181.4 GTexel/s
Memory
Memory bandwidth	409.6 GB/s	256.0 GB/s
Memory bus width	512 bit	128 bit
Memory type	LPDDR5-6400	GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount		8 GB
Memory clock speed		2000 MHz, 16 Gbps effective
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors		Portable Device Dependent
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Form factor		IGP
Interface		PCIe 4.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors		None
API support
DirectX		12 Ultimate (12_2)
OpenCL		3.0
OpenGL		4.6
Shader Model		6.7
Vulkan