Apple M2 Max 30-core vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti (Desktop)

Comparative analysis of Apple M2 Max 30-core and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti (Desktop) 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 1080 Ti (Desktop)

Differences

Reasons to consider the Apple M2 Max 30-core

Videocard is newer: launch date 5 year(s) 10 month(s) later
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 5 nm vs 16 nm
Around 19% better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 80808 vs 67670

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	17 Jan 2023 vs 10 March 2017
Manufacturing process technology	5 nm vs 16 nm
Benchmarks
Geekbench - OpenCL	80808 vs 67670

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti (Desktop)

Around 6% higher core clock speed: 1481 MHz vs 1398 MHz
119.5x more pipelines: 3584 vs 30

Core clock speed	1481 MHz vs 1398 MHz
Pipelines	3584 vs 30

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: Apple M2 Max 30-core
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti (Desktop)

Geekbench - OpenCL

GPU 1

GPU 2

80808

67670

Name	Apple M2 Max 30-core	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti (Desktop)
Geekbench - OpenCL	80808	67670
PassMark - G3D Mark		18598
PassMark - G2D Mark		937
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)		205.837
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)		2406.499
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)		19.591
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)		25.833
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)		1002.573
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)		15019
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)		3716
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		3357
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)		15019
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)		3716
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		3357
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score		2231

Compare specifications (specs)

	Apple M2 Max 30-core	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti (Desktop)
Essentials
Launch date	17 Jan 2023	10 March 2017
Place in performance rating	235	219
Architecture		Pascal
Code name		GP102
Launch price (MSRP)		$699
Price now		$826.98
Type		Desktop
Value for money (0-100)		27.48
Technical info
Core clock speed	1398 MHz	1481 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	5 nm	16 nm
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance	10.736 TFLOPS
Pipelines	30	3584
Render output units	120
Boost clock speed		1582 MHz
Floating-point performance		11,340 gflops
Maximum GPU temperature		91 °C
Texture fill rate		354.4 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)		250 Watt
Transistor count		11,800 million
Memory
Memory bandwidth	409.6 GB/s	484.4 GB / s
Memory bus width	512 bit	352 Bit
Memory type	LPDDR5-6400	GDDR5X
Maximum RAM amount		11 GB
Memory clock speed		11008 MHz
Shared memory		0
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors		1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
G-SYNC support
Multi monitor support
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface		PCIe 3.0 x16
Length		10.5" (26.7 cm)
Recommended system power (PSU)		600 Watt
Supplementary power connectors		1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
API support
DirectX		12.0 (12_1)
OpenGL		4.5
Technologies
3D Vision
Ansel
CUDA
GPU Boost
HDMI 2.0b
PCIe 3.0
SLI
Virtual Reality