Apple M2 Max 30-core vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 Max-Q

Comparative analysis of Apple M2 Max 30-core and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 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, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: Geekbench - OpenCL, PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, 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), 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.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the Apple M2 Max 30-core

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 5 year(s) 6 month(s) later
  • Around 15% higher core clock speed: 1398 MHz vs 1215 MHz
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 5 nm vs 16 nm
  • Around 95% better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 80352 vs 41185
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 17 Jan 2023 vs 27 June 2017
Core clock speed 1398 MHz vs 1215 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 5 nm vs 16 nm
Benchmarks
Geekbench - OpenCL 80352 vs 41185

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 Max-Q

  • 68.3x more pipelines: 2048 vs 30
Pipelines 2048 vs 30

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: Apple M2 Max 30-core
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 Max-Q

Geekbench - OpenCL
GPU 1
GPU 2
80352
41185
Name Apple M2 Max 30-core NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 Max-Q
Geekbench - OpenCL 80352 41185
PassMark - G3D Mark 9936
PassMark - G2D Mark 428
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 214.123
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 2293.496
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 12.704
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 139.717
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 692.9
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 14915
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 8902
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 8048
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 14915
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 8902
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 8048
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 4887

Compare specifications (specs)

Apple M2 Max 30-core NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 Max-Q

Essentials

Launch date 17 Jan 2023 27 June 2017
Place in performance rating 234 233
Architecture Pascal
Code name GP104
Type Laptop

Technical info

Core clock speed 1398 MHz 1215 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 5 nm 16 nm
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance 10.736 TFLOPS
Pipelines 30 2048
Render output units 120
Boost clock speed 1379 MHz
Floating-point performance 5,648 gflops
Texture fill rate 176.5 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 115 Watt
Transistor count 7,200 million

Memory

Memory bandwidth 409.6 GB/s 256.3 GB / s
Memory bus width 512 bit 256 Bit
Memory type LPDDR5-6400 GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount 8 GB
Memory clock speed 8008 MHz
Shared memory 0

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors No outputs
G-SYNC support

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 3.0 x16
Laptop size large
Supplementary power connectors None

API support

DirectX 12.0 (12_1)
OpenGL 4.6
Vulkan

Technologies

Multi Monitor
Multi-Projection
VR Ready