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.

 

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: 119401 vs 74179
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 13 Jun 2023 vs 13 August 2018
Manufacturing process technology 5 nm vs 12 nm
Benchmarks
Geekbench - OpenCL 119401 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
119401
74179
Name Apple M2 Ultra 60-core NVIDIA Quadro RTX 6000
Geekbench - OpenCL 119401 74179
PassMark - G3D Mark 18733
PassMark - G2D Mark 795
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 119 121
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