RTX 2000 Ada Generation Mobile vs Apple M1 Pro 16-Core GPU

Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the rankingnot rated109
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiencyno data23.83
Architectureno dataAda Lovelace (2022−2024)
Market segmentLaptopMobile workstation
Release date10 November 2020 (4 years ago)21 March 2023 (1 year ago)

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores163072
Core clock speed1296 MHzno data
Manufacturing process technology5 nm5 nm
Power consumption (TDP)10 Watt115 Watt (35 - 115 Watt TGP)

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

Laptop sizeno datalarge

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeLPDDR5-6400GDDR6
Maximum RAM amountno data8 GB
Memory bus widthno data128 Bit
Memory clock speedno data16000 MHz
Shared memory+-

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectXno data12 Ultimate

Pros & cons summary


Recency 10 November 2020 21 March 2023
Power consumption (TDP) 10 Watt 115 Watt

Apple M1 Pro 16-Core GPU has 1050% lower power consumption.

RTX 2000 Ada Generation Mobile, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 2 years.

We couldn't decide between Apple M1 Pro 16-Core GPU and RTX 2000 Ada Generation Mobile. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Apple M1 Pro 16-Core GPU is a notebook graphics card while RTX 2000 Ada Generation Mobile is a mobile workstation one.


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Apple M1 Pro 16-Core GPU
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