Apple M2 Max 30-core vs NVIDIA Quadro M5500 Mobile

Comparative analysis of Apple M2 Max 30-core and NVIDIA Quadro M5500 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 - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark, GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

Apple M2 Max 30-core

NVIDIA Quadro M5500 Mobile

Differences

Reasons to consider the Apple M2 Max 30-core

Videocard is newer: launch date 6 year(s) 9 month(s) later
Around 62% higher core clock speed: 1398 MHz vs 861 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 5 nm vs 28 nm

Launch date	17 Jan 2023 vs 8 April 2016
Core clock speed	1398 MHz vs 861 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	5 nm vs 28 nm

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro M5500 Mobile

68.3x more pipelines: 2048 vs 30

Pipelines	2048 vs 30

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: Apple M2 Max 30-core
GPU 2: NVIDIA Quadro M5500 Mobile

Name	Apple M2 Max 30-core	NVIDIA Quadro M5500 Mobile
Geekbench - OpenCL	80169
PassMark - G2D Mark		698
PassMark - G3D Mark		7915
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)		11804
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)		11804
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)		3684
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)		3684
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		4193
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		4193

Compare specifications (specs)

	Apple M2 Max 30-core	NVIDIA Quadro M5500 Mobile
Essentials
Launch date	17 Jan 2023	8 April 2016
Place in performance rating	236	239
Architecture		Maxwell 2.0
Code name		GM204
Type		Workstation
Technical info
Core clock speed	1398 MHz	861 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	5 nm	28 nm
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance	10.736 TFLOPS
Pipelines	30	2048
Render output units	120
Boost clock speed		1038 MHz
Floating-point performance		4,252 gflops
Texture fill rate		132.9 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)		150 Watt
Transistor count		5,200 million
Memory
Memory bandwidth	409.6 GB/s	224.4 GB / s
Memory bus width	512 bit	256 Bit
Memory type	LPDDR5-6400	GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount		8 GB
Memory clock speed		7012 MHz
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors		No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface		PCIe 3.0 x16
API support
DirectX		12.0 (12_1)
OpenGL		4.6