Apple M1 Ultra 48-core vs NVIDIA RTX A3000 Mobile

Comparative analysis of Apple M1 Ultra 48-core and NVIDIA RTX A3000 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, 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

  • Around 20% higher core clock speed: 1296 MHz vs 1080 MHz
  • 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 20% better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 94220 vs 78748
Specifications (specs)
Core clock speed 1296 MHz vs 1080 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 5 nm vs 8 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 120 Watt vs 130 Watt
Benchmarks
Geekbench - OpenCL 94220 vs 78748

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA RTX A3000 Mobile

  • 85.3x more pipelines: 4096 vs 48
Pipelines 4096 vs 48

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: Apple M1 Ultra 48-core
GPU 2: NVIDIA RTX A3000 Mobile

Geekbench - OpenCL
GPU 1
GPU 2
94220
78748
Name Apple M1 Ultra 48-core NVIDIA RTX A3000 Mobile
Geekbench - OpenCL 94220 78748
PassMark - G2D Mark 512
PassMark - G3D Mark 12490
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 20429
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 20429
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3710
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3710
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3356
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3356

Compare specifications (specs)

Apple M1 Ultra 48-core NVIDIA RTX A3000 Mobile

Essentials

Launch date 18 Mar 2022
Place in performance rating 178 177
Architecture Ampere
Code name GA104

Technical info

Core clock speed 1296 MHz 1080 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 5 nm 8 nm
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance 15.925 TFLOPS 12.78 TFLOPS
Pipelines 48 4096
Render output units 192
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 120 Watt 130 Watt
Boost clock speed 1560 MHz
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance 199.7 GFLOPS (1:64)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance 12.78 TFLOPS (1:1)
Pixel fill rate 99.84 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate 199.7 GTexel/s
Transistor count 17400 million

Memory

Memory bandwidth 819.2 GB/s 288 GB/s
Memory bus width 1024 bit 192 bit
Memory type LPDDR5-6400 GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount 6 GB
Memory clock speed 1500 MHz (12 Gbps effective)

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors No outputs

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 4.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors None

API support

DirectX 12.2
OpenCL 3.0
OpenGL 4.6
Shader Model 6.6
Vulkan