Apple M1 Max 24-core vs NVIDIA RTX A3000 Mobile 12GB

Comparative analysis of Apple M1 Max 24-core and NVIDIA RTX A3000 Mobile 12GB 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.

Apple M1 Max 24-core

NVIDIA RTX A3000 Mobile 12GB

Differences

Reasons to consider the Apple M1 Max 24-core

Around 52% higher core clock speed: 1296 MHz vs 855 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 5 nm vs 8 nm
13x lower typical power consumption: 10 Watt vs 130 Watt

Core clock speed	1296 MHz vs 855 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	5 nm vs 8 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	10 Watt vs 130 Watt

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA RTX A3000 Mobile 12GB

Videocard is newer: launch date 4 month(s) later
170.7x more pipelines: 4096 vs 24
Around 22% better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 81157 vs 66710

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	22 Mar 2022 vs 26 Oct 2021
Pipelines	4096 vs 24
Benchmarks
Geekbench - OpenCL	81157 vs 66710

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: Apple M1 Max 24-core
GPU 2: NVIDIA RTX A3000 Mobile 12GB

Geekbench - OpenCL

GPU 1

GPU 2

66710

81157

Name	Apple M1 Max 24-core	NVIDIA RTX A3000 Mobile 12GB
Geekbench - OpenCL	66710	81157
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		596
PassMark - G3D Mark		13843

Compare specifications (specs)

	Apple M1 Max 24-core	NVIDIA RTX A3000 Mobile 12GB
Essentials
Launch date	26 Oct 2021	22 Mar 2022
Place in performance rating	122	119
Architecture		Ampere
Code name		GA104
Technical info
Core clock speed	1296 MHz	855 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	5 nm	8 nm
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance	7.962 TFLOPS	11.80 TFLOPS
Pipelines	24	4096
Render output units	96
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	10 Watt	130 Watt
Boost clock speed		1440 MHz
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance		184.3 GFLOPS (1:64)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance		11.80 TFLOPS (1:1)
Pixel fill rate		92.16 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate		184.3 GTexel/s
Transistor count		17400 million
Memory
Memory bandwidth	409.6 GB/s	336.0 GB/s
Memory bus width	512 bit	192 bit
Memory type	LPDDR5-6400	GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount		12 GB
Memory clock speed		1750 MHz, 14 Gbps effective
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors		Portable Device Dependent
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
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