Apple M1 Ultra 48-core vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Max-Q

Comparative analysis of Apple M1 Ultra 48-core and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 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: Geekbench - OpenCL, PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, 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 M1 Ultra 48-core

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Max-Q

Differences

Reasons to consider the Apple M1 Ultra 48-core

Videocard is newer: launch date 4 year(s) 8 month(s) later
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 5 nm vs 16 nm
Around 25% lower typical power consumption: 120 Watt vs 150 Watt
2x better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 92793 vs 45938

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	18 Mar 2022 vs 27 June 2017
Core clock speed	1296 MHz vs 1290 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	5 nm vs 16 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	120 Watt vs 150 Watt
Benchmarks
Geekbench - OpenCL	92793 vs 45938

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Max-Q

53.3x more pipelines: 2560 vs 48

Pipelines	2560 vs 48

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: Apple M1 Ultra 48-core
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Max-Q

Geekbench - OpenCL

GPU 1

GPU 2

92793

45938

Name	Apple M1 Ultra 48-core	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Max-Q
Geekbench - OpenCL	92793	45938
PassMark - G3D Mark		11533
PassMark - G2D Mark		735
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)		17105
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)		5581
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		3360
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)		17105
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)		5581
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		3360
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score		6008

Compare specifications (specs)

	Apple M1 Ultra 48-core	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Max-Q
Essentials
Launch date	18 Mar 2022	27 June 2017
Place in performance rating	179	180
Architecture		Pascal
Code name		GP104
Type		Laptop
Technical info
Core clock speed	1296 MHz	1290 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	5 nm	16 nm
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance	15.925 TFLOPS
Pipelines	48	2560
Render output units	192
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	120 Watt	150 Watt
Boost clock speed		1468 MHz
Floating-point performance		7,516 gflops
Texture fill rate		234.9 GTexel / s
Transistor count		7,200 million
Memory
Memory bandwidth	819.2 GB/s	320.3 GB / s
Memory bus width	1024 bit	256 Bit
Memory type	LPDDR5-6400	GDDR5X
Maximum RAM amount		8 GB
Memory clock speed		10008 MHz
Shared memory		0
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors		No outputs
G-SYNC support
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface		PCIe 3.0 x16
Laptop size		large
Supplementary power connectors		None
API support
DirectX		12.0 (12_1)
OpenGL		4.6
Vulkan
Technologies
Multi Monitor
Multi-Projection
VR Ready