Apple M1 Ultra 48-core vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 OEM

Comparative analysis of Apple M1 Ultra 48-core and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 OEM 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 - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark, 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score, 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).

Apple M1 Ultra 48-core

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 OEM

Differences

Reasons to consider the Apple M1 Ultra 48-core

Videocard is newer: launch date 2 month(s) later
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 5 nm vs 8 nm
Around 8% lower typical power consumption: 120 Watt vs 130 Watt
Around 57% better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 94866 vs 60526

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	18 Mar 2022 vs 4 Jan 2022
Manufacturing process technology	5 nm vs 8 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	120 Watt vs 130 Watt
Benchmarks
Geekbench - OpenCL	94866 vs 60526

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 OEM

Around 17% higher core clock speed: 1515 MHz vs 1296 MHz
48x more pipelines: 2304 vs 48

Core clock speed	1515 MHz vs 1296 MHz
Pipelines	2304 vs 48

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: Apple M1 Ultra 48-core
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 OEM

Geekbench - OpenCL

GPU 1

GPU 2

94866

60526

Name	Apple M1 Ultra 48-core	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 OEM
Geekbench - OpenCL	94866	60526
PassMark - G2D Mark		970
PassMark - G3D Mark		11961
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score		6269
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)		207.741
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)		2525.787
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)		19.08
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)		87.152
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)		806.848

Compare specifications (specs)

	Apple M1 Ultra 48-core	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 OEM
Essentials
Launch date	18 Mar 2022	4 Jan 2022
Place in performance rating	180	182
Architecture		Ampere
Code name		GA106
Technical info
Core clock speed	1296 MHz	1515 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	5 nm	8 nm
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance	15.925 TFLOPS	8.087 TFLOPS
Pipelines	48	2304
Render output units	192
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	120 Watt	130 Watt
Boost clock speed		1755 MHz
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance		126.4 GFLOPS (1:64)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance		8.087 TFLOPS (1:1)
Pixel fill rate		56.16 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate		126.4 GTexel/s
Transistor count		12000 million
Memory
Memory bandwidth	819.2 GB/s	224.0 GB/s
Memory bus width	1024 bit	128 bit
Memory type	LPDDR5-6400	GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount		8 GB
Memory clock speed		1750 MHz, 14 Gbps effective
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors		1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Form factor		Dual-slot
Interface		PCIe 4.0 x8
Length		242 mm, 9.5 inches
Recommended system power (PSU)		300 Watt
Supplementary power connectors		1x 8-pin
Width		112 mm, 4.4 inches
API support
DirectX		12 Ultimate (12_2)
OpenCL		3.0
OpenGL		4.6
Shader Model		6.7
Vulkan