Apple M2 Ultra 60-core vs NVIDIA RTX A5000 Mobile

Comparative analysis of Apple M2 Ultra 60-core and NVIDIA RTX A5000 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, GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark.

Apple M2 Ultra 60-core

NVIDIA RTX A5000 Mobile

Differences

Reasons to consider the Apple M2 Ultra 60-core

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
Around 4% better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 119468 vs 114349

Specifications (specs)
Core clock speed	1398 MHz vs 900 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	5 nm vs 8 nm
Benchmarks
Geekbench - OpenCL	119468 vs 114349

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA RTX A5000 Mobile

102.4x more pipelines: 6144 vs 60

Pipelines	6144 vs 60

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: Apple M2 Ultra 60-core
GPU 2: NVIDIA RTX A5000 Mobile

Geekbench - OpenCL

GPU 1

GPU 2

119468

114349

Name	Apple M2 Ultra 60-core	NVIDIA RTX A5000 Mobile
Geekbench - OpenCL	119468	114349
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)		3711
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)		3711
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		3356
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		3356
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)		26506
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)		26506
PassMark - G2D Mark		616
PassMark - G3D Mark		16138

Compare specifications (specs)

	Apple M2 Ultra 60-core	NVIDIA RTX A5000 Mobile
Essentials
Launch date	13 Jun 2023
Place in performance rating	117	118
Architecture		Ampere
Code name		GA104
Technical info
Core clock speed	1398 MHz	900 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	5 nm	8 nm
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance	27.2 TFLOPS	19.35 TFLOPS
Pipelines	60	6144
Render output units	240
Boost clock speed		1575 MHz
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance		604.8 GFLOPS (1:32)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance		19.35 TFLOPS (1:1)
Pixel fill rate		151.2 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate		302.4 GTexel/s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)		140 Watt
Transistor count		17400 million
Memory
Memory bandwidth	800 GB/s	448 GB/s
Memory bus width	1024 bit	256 bit
Memory type	LPDDR5-6400	GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount		16 GB
Memory clock speed		1750 MHz (14 Gbps effective)
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors		No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface		PCIe 4.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors		None
API support
DirectX		12.2
OpenCL		3.0
OpenGL		4.6
Shader Model		6.6
Vulkan