Apple M1 Ultra 48-core vs NVIDIA Quadro RTX 4000 Mobile

Comparative analysis of Apple M1 Ultra 48-core and NVIDIA Quadro RTX 4000 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, PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark, 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).

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the Apple M1 Ultra 48-core

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 2 year(s) 9 month(s) later
  • Around 17% higher core clock speed: 1296 MHz vs 1110 MHz
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 5 nm vs 12 nm
Launch date 18 Mar 2022 vs 27 May 2019
Core clock speed 1296 MHz vs 1110 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 5 nm vs 12 nm

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro RTX 4000 Mobile

  • 53.3x more pipelines: 2560 vs 48
  • Around 9% lower typical power consumption: 110 Watt vs 120 Watt
Pipelines 2560 vs 48
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 110 Watt vs 120 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: Apple M1 Ultra 48-core
GPU 2: NVIDIA Quadro RTX 4000 Mobile

Name Apple M1 Ultra 48-core NVIDIA Quadro RTX 4000 Mobile
Geekbench - OpenCL 94065
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 7438
PassMark - G2D Mark 540
PassMark - G3D Mark 12404
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 19529
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 19529
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3715
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3715
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3356
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3356

Compare specifications (specs)

Apple M1 Ultra 48-core NVIDIA Quadro RTX 4000 Mobile

Essentials

Launch date 18 Mar 2022 27 May 2019
Place in performance rating 183 181
Architecture Turing
Code name TU104
Type Laptop

Technical info

Core clock speed 1296 MHz 1110 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 5 nm 12 nm
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance 15.925 TFLOPS 7.987 TFLOPS
Pipelines 48 2560
Render output units 192
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 120 Watt 110 Watt
Boost clock speed 1560 MHz
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance 249.6 GFLOPS (1:32)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance 15.97 TFLOPS (2:1)
Pixel fill rate 99.84 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate 249.6 GTexel/s
Transistor count 13600 million

Memory

Memory bandwidth 819.2 GB/s 448 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 IGP

API support

DirectX 12.1
OpenCL 1.2
OpenGL 4.6
Shader Model 6.5
Vulkan