Apple M2 Ultra 60-core vs NVIDIA RTX A6000

Comparative analysis of Apple M2 Ultra 60-core and NVIDIA RTX A6000 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 - 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 RTX A6000

Differences

Reasons to consider the Apple M2 Ultra 60-core

Videocard is newer: launch date 2 year(s) 8 month(s) later
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 5 nm vs 8 nm

Launch date	13 Jun 2023 vs 5 Oct 2020
Manufacturing process technology	5 nm vs 8 nm

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA RTX A6000

Around 4% higher core clock speed: 1455 MHz vs 1398 MHz
179.2x more pipelines: 10752 vs 60
Around 62% better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 193937 vs 119711

Specifications (specs)
Core clock speed	1455 MHz vs 1398 MHz
Pipelines	10752 vs 60
Benchmarks
Geekbench - OpenCL	193937 vs 119711

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: Apple M2 Ultra 60-core
GPU 2: NVIDIA RTX A6000

Geekbench - OpenCL

GPU 1

GPU 2

119711

193937

Name	Apple M2 Ultra 60-core	NVIDIA RTX A6000
Geekbench - OpenCL	119711	193937
PassMark - G3D Mark		4237
PassMark - G2D Mark		86
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)		735.8
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)		58.523
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)		178.784
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)		2342.233
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)		23142
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)		3712
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		3353
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)		23142
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)		3712
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		3353
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score		4665

Compare specifications (specs)

	Apple M2 Ultra 60-core	NVIDIA RTX A6000
Essentials
Launch date	13 Jun 2023	5 Oct 2020
Place in performance rating	115	100
Architecture		Ampere
Code name		GA102
Launch price (MSRP)		$4649
Technical info
Core clock speed	1398 MHz	1455 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	5 nm	8 nm
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance	27.2 TFLOPS	40.00 TFLOPS
Pipelines	60	10752
Render output units	240
Boost clock speed		1860 MHz
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance		1250 GFLOPS (1:32)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance		40.00 TFLOPS (1:1)
Pixel fill rate		208.3 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate		625.0 GTexel/s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)		300 Watt
Transistor count		28300 million
Memory
Memory bandwidth	800 GB/s	768 GB/s
Memory bus width	1024 bit	384 bit
Memory type	LPDDR5-6400	GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount		48 GB
Memory clock speed		2000 MHz (16 Gbps effective)
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors		4x DisplayPort
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Form factor		Dual-slot
Interface		PCIe 4.0 x16
Length		267 mm (10.5 inches)
Recommended system power (PSU)		700 Watt
Supplementary power connectors		8-pin EPS
Width		112 mm (4.4 inches)
API support
DirectX		12.2
OpenCL		3.0
OpenGL		4.6
Shader Model		6.6
Vulkan