Apple M2 Max 30-core vs NVIDIA TITAN Xp

Comparative analysis of Apple M2 Max 30-core and NVIDIA TITAN Xp 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.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the Apple M2 Max 30-core

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 5 year(s) 9 month(s) later
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 5 nm vs 16 nm
  • Around 11% better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 80717 vs 72561
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 17 Jan 2023 vs 6 April 2017
Manufacturing process technology 5 nm vs 16 nm
Benchmarks
Geekbench - OpenCL 80717 vs 72561

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA TITAN Xp

  • Around 1% higher core clock speed: 1405 MHz vs 1398 MHz
  • 128x more pipelines: 3840 vs 30
Core clock speed 1405 MHz vs 1398 MHz
Pipelines 3840 vs 30

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: Apple M2 Max 30-core
GPU 2: NVIDIA TITAN Xp

Geekbench - OpenCL
GPU 1
GPU 2
80717
72561
Name Apple M2 Max 30-core NVIDIA TITAN Xp
Geekbench - OpenCL 80717 72561
PassMark - G3D Mark 17881
PassMark - G2D Mark 934
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 256.103
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 2513.321
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 19.708
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 43.083
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 1139.382
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 10966
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3686
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3343
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 10966
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3686
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3343
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 2376

Compare specifications (specs)

Apple M2 Max 30-core NVIDIA TITAN Xp

Essentials

Launch date 17 Jan 2023 6 April 2017
Place in performance rating 234 229
Architecture Pascal
Code name GP102
Launch price (MSRP) $1,199
Price now $1,200
Type Desktop
Value for money (0-100) 15.97

Technical info

Core clock speed 1398 MHz 1405 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 5 nm 16 nm
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance 10.736 TFLOPS
Pipelines 30 3840
Render output units 120
Boost clock speed 1582 MHz
Floating-point performance 12,150 gflops
Texture fill rate 379.7 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 250 Watt
Transistor count 11,800 million

Memory

Memory bandwidth 409.6 GB/s 547.6 GB / s
Memory bus width 512 bit 384 Bit
Memory type LPDDR5-6400 GDDR5X
Maximum RAM amount 12 GB
Memory clock speed 11408 MHz

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 3.0 x16
Length 267 mm
Supplementary power connectors 1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

API support

DirectX 12.0 (12_1)
OpenGL 4.6