Apple M2 Ultra 60-core vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile

Comparative analysis of Apple M2 Ultra 60-core and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile 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, GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps).

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the Apple M2 Ultra 60-core

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 2 year(s) 5 month(s) later
  • Around 55% higher core clock speed: 1398 MHz vs 900 MHz
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 5 nm vs 8 nm
Launch date 13 Jun 2023 vs 12 Jan 2021
Core clock speed 1398 MHz vs 900 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 5 nm vs 8 nm

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile

  • 64x more pipelines: 3840 vs 60
Pipelines 3840 vs 60

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: Apple M2 Ultra 60-core
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile

Name Apple M2 Ultra 60-core NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile
Geekbench - OpenCL 119401
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 20611
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 20611
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 7929
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 7929
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 8917
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 8917

Compare specifications (specs)

Apple M2 Ultra 60-core NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile

Essentials

Launch date 13 Jun 2023 12 Jan 2021
Place in performance rating 119 122
Architecture Ampere
Code name GA106
Type Laptop

Technical info

Core clock speed 1398 MHz 900 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 5 nm 8 nm
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance 27.2 TFLOPS 10.94 TFLOPS
Pipelines 60 3840
Render output units 240
Boost clock speed 1425 MHz
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance 171.0 GFLOPS (1:64)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance 10.94 TFLOPS (1:1)
Pixel fill rate 68.40 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate 171.0 GTexel/s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 80 Watt
Transistor count 12000 million

Memory

Memory bandwidth 800 GB/s 336.0 GB/s
Memory bus width 1024 bit 192 bit
Memory type LPDDR5-6400 GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount 6 GB
Memory clock speed 1750 MHz, 14 Gbps effective

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors Portable Device Dependent

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Height PCIe 4.0 x16
Interface PCIe 4.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors None

API support

DirectX 12 Ultimate (12_2)
OpenCL 3.0
OpenGL 4.6
Shader Model 6.7
Vulkan

Technologies

GPU Boost
VR Ready