Apple M2 Ultra 60-core vs NVIDIA RTX A3000 Mobile 12GB

Comparative analysis of Apple M2 Ultra 60-core and NVIDIA RTX A3000 Mobile 12GB 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.

Apple M2 Ultra 60-core

NVIDIA RTX A3000 Mobile 12GB

Differences

Reasons to consider the Apple M2 Ultra 60-core

Videocard is newer: launch date 1 year(s) 2 month(s) later
Around 64% higher core clock speed: 1398 MHz vs 855 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 5 nm vs 8 nm
Around 48% better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 119733 vs 80996

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	13 Jun 2023 vs 22 Mar 2022
Core clock speed	1398 MHz vs 855 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	5 nm vs 8 nm
Benchmarks
Geekbench - OpenCL	119733 vs 80996

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA RTX A3000 Mobile 12GB

68.3x more pipelines: 4096 vs 60

Pipelines	4096 vs 60

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: Apple M2 Ultra 60-core
GPU 2: NVIDIA RTX A3000 Mobile 12GB

Geekbench - OpenCL

GPU 1

GPU 2

119733

80996

Name	Apple M2 Ultra 60-core	NVIDIA RTX A3000 Mobile 12GB
Geekbench - OpenCL	119733	80996
PassMark - G2D Mark		596
PassMark - G3D Mark		13847

Compare specifications (specs)

	Apple M2 Ultra 60-core	NVIDIA RTX A3000 Mobile 12GB
Essentials
Launch date	13 Jun 2023	22 Mar 2022
Place in performance rating	115	114
Architecture		Ampere
Code name		GA104
Technical info
Core clock speed	1398 MHz	855 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	5 nm	8 nm
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance	27.2 TFLOPS	11.80 TFLOPS
Pipelines	60	4096
Render output units	240
Boost clock speed		1440 MHz
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance		184.3 GFLOPS (1:64)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance		11.80 TFLOPS (1:1)
Pixel fill rate		92.16 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate		184.3 GTexel/s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)		130 Watt
Transistor count		17400 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		12 GB
Memory clock speed		1750 MHz, 14 Gbps effective
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors		Portable Device Dependent
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
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