Apple M2 Max 30-core vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Mobile

Comparative analysis of Apple M2 Max 30-core and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 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 - 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 RTX 3050 Mobile

Differences

Reasons to consider the Apple M2 Max 30-core

Around 96% higher core clock speed: 1398 MHz vs 712 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 5 nm vs 8 nm
Around 59% better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 80633 vs 50643

Specifications (specs)
Core clock speed	1398 MHz vs 712 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	5 nm vs 8 nm
Benchmarks
Geekbench - OpenCL	80633 vs 50643

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Mobile

Videocard is newer: launch date 2 year(s) 0 month(s) later
68.3x more pipelines: 2048 vs 30

Launch date	2021 vs 17 Jan 2023
Pipelines	2048 vs 30

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: Apple M2 Max 30-core
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Mobile

Geekbench - OpenCL

GPU 1

GPU 2

80633

50643

Name	Apple M2 Max 30-core	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Mobile
Geekbench - OpenCL	80633	50643
PassMark - G3D Mark		6841
PassMark - G2D Mark		403
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)		165.993
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)		1980.866
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)		14.641
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)		135.641
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)		745.481
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)		15760
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)		8923
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		8045
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)		15760
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)		8923
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		8045
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score		4926

Compare specifications (specs)

	Apple M2 Max 30-core	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Mobile
Essentials
Launch date	17 Jan 2023	2021
Place in performance rating	243	241
Architecture		Ampere
Code name		GA107
Type		Laptop
Technical info
Core clock speed	1398 MHz	712 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	5 nm	8 nm
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance	10.736 TFLOPS	4.329 TFLOPS
Pipelines	30	2048
Render output units	120
Boost clock speed		1057 MHz
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance		67.65 GFLOPS (1:64)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance		4.329 TFLOPS (1:1)
Pixel fill rate		42.28 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate		67.65 GTexel/s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)		75 Watt
Memory
Memory bandwidth	409.6 GB/s	192 GB/s
Memory bus width	512 bit	128 Bit
Memory type	LPDDR5-6400	GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount		4 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
Width		IGP
API support
DirectX		12.2
OpenCL		3.0
OpenGL		4.6
Shader Model		6.6
Vulkan