Apple M2 Max 30-core vs NVIDIA Quadro P5000

Comparative analysis of Apple M2 Max 30-core and NVIDIA Quadro P5000 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 Quadro P5000

Differences

Reasons to consider the Apple M2 Max 30-core

Videocard is newer: launch date 6 year(s) 3 month(s) later
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 5 nm vs 16 nm
Around 61% better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 80168 vs 49641

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	17 Jan 2023 vs 1 October 2016
Manufacturing process technology	5 nm vs 16 nm
Benchmarks
Geekbench - OpenCL	80168 vs 49641

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro P5000

Around 15% higher core clock speed: 1607 MHz vs 1398 MHz
68.3x more pipelines: 2048 vs 30

Core clock speed	1607 MHz vs 1398 MHz
Pipelines	2048 vs 30

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: Apple M2 Max 30-core
GPU 2: NVIDIA Quadro P5000

Geekbench - OpenCL

GPU 1

GPU 2

80168

49641

Name	Apple M2 Max 30-core	NVIDIA Quadro P5000
Geekbench - OpenCL	80168	49641
PassMark - G3D Mark		12395
PassMark - G2D Mark		671
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)		223.558
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)		2698.914
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)		14.206
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)		140.845
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)		927.006
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)		15489
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)		3409
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		3077
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)		15489
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)		3409
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		3077
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score		6008

Compare specifications (specs)

	Apple M2 Max 30-core	NVIDIA Quadro P5000
Essentials
Launch date	17 Jan 2023	1 October 2016
Place in performance rating	236	232
Architecture		Pascal
Code name		GP104
Launch price (MSRP)		$2,499
Price now		$1,699.99
Type		Workstation
Value for money (0-100)		8.38
Technical info
Core clock speed	1398 MHz	1607 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		1733 MHz
Floating-point performance		8,873 gflops
Texture fill rate		277.3 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)		100 Watt
Transistor count		7,200 million
Memory
Memory bandwidth	409.6 GB/s	192 GB / s
Memory bus width	512 bit	256 Bit
Memory type	LPDDR5-6400	GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount		16 GB
Memory clock speed		9016 MHz
Shared memory		0
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors		1x DVI, 4x DisplayPort
Display Port		1.4
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface		PCIe 3.0 x16
Length		267 mm
Supplementary power connectors		1x 8-pin
API support
DirectX		12
OpenGL		4.5
Shader Model		5.1
Technologies
3D Stereo
3D Vision Pro
Mosaic
nView
nView Display Management
Optimus