Apple M2 Max 30-core vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 Super Mobile

Comparative analysis of Apple M2 Max 30-core and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 Super 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, 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the Apple M2 Max 30-core

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 2 year(s) 9 month(s) later
  • Around 23% higher core clock speed: 1398 MHz vs 1140 MHz
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 5 nm vs 12 nm
Launch date 17 Jan 2023 vs 2 Apr 2020
Core clock speed 1398 MHz vs 1140 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 5 nm vs 12 nm

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 Super Mobile

  • 85.3x more pipelines: 2560 vs 30
Pipelines 2560 vs 30

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: Apple M2 Max 30-core
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 Super Mobile

Name Apple M2 Max 30-core NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 Super Mobile
Geekbench - OpenCL 80159
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 8356

Compare specifications (specs)

Apple M2 Max 30-core NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 Super Mobile

Essentials

Launch date 17 Jan 2023 2 Apr 2020
Place in performance rating 236 234
Architecture Turing
Code name TU104
Type Laptop

Technical info

Core clock speed 1398 MHz 1140 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 5 nm 12 nm
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance 10.736 TFLOPS 7.066 TFLOPS
Pipelines 30 2560
Render output units 120
Boost clock speed 1380 MHz
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance 220.8 GFLOPS (1:32)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance 14.13 TFLOPS (2:1)
Pixel fill rate 88.32 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate 220.8 GTexel/s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 115 Watt
Transistor count 13600 million

Memory

Memory bandwidth 409.6 GB/s 448 GB/s
Memory bus width 512 bit 256 bit
Memory type LPDDR5-6400 GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount 8 GB
Memory clock speed 1750 MHz (14000 MHz effective)

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors No outputs

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors None
Width IGP

API support

DirectX 12.2
OpenCL 1.2
OpenGL 4.6
Shader Model 6.5
Vulkan