Apple M1 Ultra 48-core vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER Mobile

Comparative analysis of Apple M1 Ultra 48-core and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER 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, 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score, 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).

Apple M1 Ultra 48-core

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER Mobile

Differences

Reasons to consider the Apple M1 Ultra 48-core

Videocard is newer: launch date 1 year(s) 11 month(s) later
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 5 nm vs 12 nm
Around 25% lower typical power consumption: 120 Watt vs 150 Watt

Launch date	18 Mar 2022 vs 2 Apr 2020
Manufacturing process technology	5 nm vs 12 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	120 Watt vs 150 Watt

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER Mobile

Around 5% higher core clock speed: 1365 MHz vs 1296 MHz
64x more pipelines: 3072 vs 48

Core clock speed	1365 MHz vs 1296 MHz
Pipelines	3072 vs 48

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: Apple M1 Ultra 48-core
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER Mobile

Name	Apple M1 Ultra 48-core	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER Mobile
Geekbench - OpenCL	95143
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score		10255
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)		20291
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)		20291
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)		3652
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)		3652
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		58
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		58

Compare specifications (specs)

	Apple M1 Ultra 48-core	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER Mobile
Essentials
Launch date	18 Mar 2022	2 Apr 2020
Place in performance rating	177	178
Architecture		Turing
Code name		TU104
Type		Laptop
Technical info
Core clock speed	1296 MHz	1365 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	5 nm	12 nm
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance	15.925 TFLOPS	9.585 TFLOPS
Pipelines	48	3072
Render output units	192
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	120 Watt	150 Watt
Boost clock speed		1560 MHz
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance		299.5 GFLOPS (1:32)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance		19.17 TFLOPS (2:1)
Pixel fill rate		99.84 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate		299.5 GTexel/s
Transistor count		13600 million
Memory
Memory bandwidth	819.2 GB/s	448.0 GB/s
Memory bus width	1024 bit	256 bit
Memory type	LPDDR5-6400	GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount		8 GB
Memory clock speed		1750 MHz (14000 MHz effective)
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors		No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface		PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors		None
Width		Dual-slot
API support
DirectX		12.2
OpenCL		1.2
OpenGL		4.6
Shader Model		6.5
Vulkan