Apple M1 Ultra 48-core vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 Max-Q

Comparative analysis of Apple M1 Ultra 48-core and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 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. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: Geekbench - OpenCL, PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), 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.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the Apple M1 Ultra 48-core

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 3 year(s) 1 month(s) later
  • Around 46% higher core clock speed: 1296 MHz vs 885 MHz
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 5 nm vs 12 nm
  • Around 19% better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 92793 vs 78123
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 18 Mar 2022 vs 29 January 2019
Core clock speed 1296 MHz vs 885 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 5 nm vs 12 nm
Benchmarks
Geekbench - OpenCL 92793 vs 78123

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 Max-Q

  • 48x more pipelines: 2304 vs 48
  • Around 4% lower typical power consumption: 115 Watt vs 120 Watt
Pipelines 2304 vs 48
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 115 Watt vs 120 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: Apple M1 Ultra 48-core
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 Max-Q

Geekbench - OpenCL
GPU 1
GPU 2
92793
78123
Name Apple M1 Ultra 48-core NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 Max-Q
Geekbench - OpenCL 92793 78123
PassMark - G3D Mark 11748
PassMark - G2D Mark 483
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 168.08
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 1935.102
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 22.794
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 111.023
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 1001.496
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 17328
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 8912
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 8055
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 17328
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 8912
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 8055
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 6841

Compare specifications (specs)

Apple M1 Ultra 48-core NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 Max-Q

Essentials

Launch date 18 Mar 2022 29 January 2019
Place in performance rating 179 178
Architecture Turing
Code name TU106
Type Laptop

Technical info

Core clock speed 1296 MHz 885 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 5 nm 12 nm
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance 15.925 TFLOPS
Pipelines 48 2304
Render output units 192
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 120 Watt 115 Watt
Boost clock speed 1185 MHz
Transistor count 10,800 million

Memory

Memory bandwidth 819.2 GB/s
Memory bus width 1024 bit 256 Bit
Memory type LPDDR5-6400 GDDR6
Memory clock speed 14000 MHz

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors No outputs

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors None

API support

DirectX 12.0
OpenGL 4.6