Apple M1 Ultra 48-core vs NVIDIA Quadro RTX 5000 Max-Q

Comparative analysis of Apple M1 Ultra 48-core and NVIDIA Quadro RTX 5000 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, 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 Quadro RTX 5000 Max-Q

Differences

Reasons to consider the Apple M1 Ultra 48-core

Videocard is newer: launch date 2 year(s) 9 month(s) later
2.2x more core clock speed: 1296 MHz vs 600 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 5 nm vs 12 nm
Around 10% better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 94657 vs 85869

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	18 Mar 2022 vs 27 May 2019
Core clock speed	1296 MHz vs 600 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	5 nm vs 12 nm
Benchmarks
Geekbench - OpenCL	94657 vs 85869

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro RTX 5000 Max-Q

64x more pipelines: 3072 vs 48
Around 50% lower typical power consumption: 80 Watt vs 120 Watt

Pipelines	3072 vs 48
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	80 Watt vs 120 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: Apple M1 Ultra 48-core
GPU 2: NVIDIA Quadro RTX 5000 Max-Q

Geekbench - OpenCL

GPU 1

GPU 2

94657

85869

Name	Apple M1 Ultra 48-core	NVIDIA Quadro RTX 5000 Max-Q
Geekbench - OpenCL	94657	85869
PassMark - G3D Mark		13360
PassMark - G2D Mark		545
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)		19377
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)		3717
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		3357
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)		19377
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)		3717
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		3357
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score		7879

Compare specifications (specs)

	Apple M1 Ultra 48-core	NVIDIA Quadro RTX 5000 Max-Q
Essentials
Launch date	18 Mar 2022	27 May 2019
Place in performance rating	178	180
Architecture		Turing
Code name		TU104
Type		Laptop
Technical info
Core clock speed	1296 MHz	600 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	5 nm	12 nm
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance	15.925 TFLOPS	8.294 TFLOPS
Pipelines	48	3072
Render output units	192
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	120 Watt	80 Watt
Boost clock speed		1350 MHz
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance		259.2 GFLOPS
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance		16.59 TFLOPS
Pixel fill rate		86.40 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate		259.2 GTexel/s
Transistor count		13600 million
Memory
Memory bandwidth	819.2 GB/s
Memory bus width	1024 bit
Memory type	LPDDR5-6400
Maximum RAM amount		16 GB
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors		No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface		3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors		None
Width		IGP
API support
OpenCL		1.2
OpenGL		4.6
Shader Model		6.4
Vulkan