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.

Apple M2 Max 30-core

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 Max-Q

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 96% better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 80552 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	80552 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

80552

41185

Name	Apple M2 Max 30-core	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 Max-Q
Geekbench - OpenCL	80552	41185
PassMark - G3D Mark		9934
PassMark - G2D Mark		427
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	235	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