Apple M2 Ultra 60-core vs NVIDIA Quadro RTX 6000

Comparative analysis of Apple M2 Ultra 60-core and NVIDIA Quadro RTX 6000 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), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

Apple M2 Ultra 60-core

NVIDIA Quadro RTX 6000

Differences

Reasons to consider the Apple M2 Ultra 60-core

Videocard is newer: launch date 4 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 61% better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 119468 vs 74179

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	13 Jun 2023 vs 13 August 2018
Manufacturing process technology	5 nm vs 12 nm
Benchmarks
Geekbench - OpenCL	119468 vs 74179

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro RTX 6000

Around 3% higher core clock speed: 1440 MHz vs 1398 MHz

Core clock speed	1440 MHz vs 1398 MHz

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: Apple M2 Ultra 60-core
GPU 2: NVIDIA Quadro RTX 6000

Geekbench - OpenCL

GPU 1

GPU 2

119468

74179

Name	Apple M2 Ultra 60-core	NVIDIA Quadro RTX 6000
Geekbench - OpenCL	119468	74179
PassMark - G3D Mark		18675
PassMark - G2D Mark		792
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)		488.989
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)		5451.006
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)		41.461
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)		153.677
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)		1534.582
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)		19571
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)		3717
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		3357
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)		19571
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)		3717
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		3357
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score		13943

Compare specifications (specs)

	Apple M2 Ultra 60-core	NVIDIA Quadro RTX 6000
Essentials
Launch date	13 Jun 2023	13 August 2018
Place in performance rating	117	120
Architecture		Turing
Code name		TU102
Launch price (MSRP)		$6,299
Type		Workstation
Technical info
Core clock speed	1398 MHz	1440 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	5 nm	12 nm
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance	27.2 TFLOPS
Pipelines	60
Render output units	240
Boost clock speed		1770 MHz
Thermal Design Power (TDP)		250 Watt
Transistor count		18,600 million
Memory
Memory bandwidth	800 GB/s
Memory bus width	1024 bit
Memory type	LPDDR5-6400
Memory clock speed		14000 MHz
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors		3x DisplayPort, 1x USB Type-C
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface		PCIe 3.0 x16
Length		267 mm
Supplementary power connectors		2x 8-pin
API support
DirectX		12.0 (12_1)
OpenGL		4.6