Apple M2 Max 30-core vs NVIDIA Tesla P40

Comparative analysis of Apple M2 Max 30-core and NVIDIA Tesla P40 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).

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the Apple M2 Max 30-core

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 6 year(s) 4 month(s) later
  • Around 7% higher core clock speed: 1398 MHz vs 1303 MHz
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 5 nm vs 16 nm
  • Around 29% better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 80685 vs 62537
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 17 Jan 2023 vs 13 September 2016
Core clock speed 1398 MHz vs 1303 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 5 nm vs 16 nm
Benchmarks
Geekbench - OpenCL 80685 vs 62537

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Tesla P40

  • 128x more pipelines: 3840 vs 30
Pipelines 3840 vs 30

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: Apple M2 Max 30-core
GPU 2: NVIDIA Tesla P40

Geekbench - OpenCL
GPU 1
GPU 2
80685
62537
Name Apple M2 Max 30-core NVIDIA Tesla P40
Geekbench - OpenCL 80685 62537
PassMark - G3D Mark 12267
PassMark - G2D Mark 439
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 300.355
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 3559.383
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 19.757
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 204.32
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 1214.142
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 9538
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3699
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3340
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 9538
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3699
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3340

Compare specifications (specs)

Apple M2 Max 30-core NVIDIA Tesla P40

Essentials

Launch date 17 Jan 2023 13 September 2016
Place in performance rating 233 234
Architecture Pascal
Code name GP102
Launch price (MSRP) $5,699
Type Workstation

Technical info

Core clock speed 1398 MHz 1303 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 1531 MHz
Floating-point performance 11,758 gflops
Texture fill rate 367.4 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 250 Watt
Transistor count 11,800 million

Memory

Memory bandwidth 409.6 GB/s 480.4 GB / s
Memory bus width 512 bit 384 Bit
Memory type LPDDR5-6400 GDDR5X
Maximum RAM amount 24 GB
Memory clock speed 10008 MHz

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors No outputs

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