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).

Apple M1 Ultra 48-core

NVIDIA RTX A3000 Mobile

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: 95143 vs 78981

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	95143 vs 78981

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

95143

78981

Name	Apple M1 Ultra 48-core	NVIDIA RTX A3000 Mobile
Geekbench - OpenCL	95143	78981
PassMark - G2D Mark		526
PassMark - G3D Mark		12647
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	177	174
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