Apple M2 Ultra 60-core vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Super

Comparative analysis of Apple M2 Ultra 60-core and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Super 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 Ultra 60-core

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Super

Differences

Reasons to consider the Apple M2 Ultra 60-core

Videocard is newer: launch date 3 year(s) 10 month(s) later
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 5 nm vs 12 nm
Around 3% better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 119401 vs 115551

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	13 Jun 2023 vs 23 July 2019
Manufacturing process technology	5 nm vs 12 nm
Benchmarks
Geekbench - OpenCL	119401 vs 115551

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Super

Around 18% higher core clock speed: 1650 MHz vs 1398 MHz
51.2x more pipelines: 3072 vs 60

Core clock speed	1650 MHz vs 1398 MHz
Pipelines	3072 vs 60

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: Apple M2 Ultra 60-core
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Super

Geekbench - OpenCL

GPU 1

GPU 2

119401

115551

Name	Apple M2 Ultra 60-core	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Super
Geekbench - OpenCL	119401	115551
PassMark - G3D Mark		19571
PassMark - G2D Mark		921
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)		337.794
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)		4566.815
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)		31.631
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)		190.996
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)		1654.321
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)		27179
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)		3716
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		3355
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)		27179
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)		3716
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		3355
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score		2

Compare specifications (specs)

	Apple M2 Ultra 60-core	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Super
Essentials
Launch date	13 Jun 2023	23 July 2019
Place in performance rating	119	116
Architecture		Turing
Code name		TU104
Launch price (MSRP)		$699
Type		Desktop
Technical info
Core clock speed	1398 MHz	1650 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	5 nm	12 nm
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance	27.2 TFLOPS
Pipelines	60	3072
Render output units	240	64
Boost clock speed		1815 MHz
CUDA cores		3072
Maximum GPU temperature		89 C
Thermal Design Power (TDP)		250 Watt
Memory
Memory bandwidth	800 GB/s	496 GB/s
Memory bus width	1024 bit	256 bit
Memory type	LPDDR5-6400	GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount		8 GB
Memory clock speed		14000 MHz
Video outputs and ports
Display Port		1.4
DisplayPort support
Dual-link DVI support
G-SYNC support
HDCP
HDMI
Multi monitor support
Number of simultaneous displays		4
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Height		4.556” (115.7mm)
Length		10.5” (266.74mm)
Recommended system power (PSU)		650 Watt
Supplementary power connectors		6 pin + 8 pin
Width		2-Slot
API support
DirectX		12.1
OpenGL		4.5
Shader Model		6.4
Vulkan
Technologies
Ansel
HDMI 2.0b
SLI
VR Ready