Apple M2 Ultra 60-core vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 Mobile

Comparative analysis of Apple M2 Ultra 60-core and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 Mobile 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 - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark, 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

Apple M2 Ultra 60-core

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 Mobile

Differences

Reasons to consider the Apple M2 Ultra 60-core

Around 5% higher core clock speed: 1398 MHz vs 1335 MHz

Core clock speed	1398 MHz vs 1335 MHz

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 Mobile

Videocard is newer: launch date 2 year(s) 9 month(s) later
162.1x more pipelines: 9728 vs 60
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 4 nm vs 5 nm
Around 51% better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 180351 vs 119711

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	2023 vs 13 Jun 2023
Pipelines	9728 vs 60
Manufacturing process technology	4 nm vs 5 nm
Benchmarks
Geekbench - OpenCL	180351 vs 119711

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: Apple M2 Ultra 60-core
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 Mobile

Geekbench - OpenCL

GPU 1

GPU 2

119711

180351

Name	Apple M2 Ultra 60-core	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 Mobile
Geekbench - OpenCL	119711	180351
PassMark - G2D Mark		982
PassMark - G3D Mark		27374
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score		4911

Compare specifications (specs)

	Apple M2 Ultra 60-core	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 Mobile
Essentials
Launch date	13 Jun 2023	2023
Place in performance rating	115	39
Architecture		Ada Lovelace
Code name		AD103
Technical info
Core clock speed	1398 MHz	1335 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	5 nm	4 nm
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance	27.2 TFLOPS	32.98 TFLOPS
Pipelines	60	9728
Render output units	240
Boost clock speed		1695 MHz
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance		515.3 GFLOPS (1:64)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance		32.98 TFLOPS (1:1)
Pixel fill rate		189.8 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate		515.3 GTexel/s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)		150 Watt
Transistor count		45900 million
Memory
Memory bandwidth	800 GB/s	512.0 GB/s
Memory bus width	1024 bit	256 bit
Memory type	LPDDR5-6400	GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount		16 GB
Memory clock speed		2000 MHz, 16 Gbps effective
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors		Portable Device Dependent
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Form factor		IGP
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