H100 PCIe 96 GB vs Apple M2 Max 38-Core GPU

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Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot ratednot rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Architectureno dataHopper (2022−2023)
GPU code nameno dataGH100
Market segmentLaptopWorkstation
Release date17 January 2023 (1 year 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 cores3816896
Core clock speedno data1665 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1837 MHz
Number of transistorsno data80,000 million
Manufacturing process technology5 nm4 nm
Power consumption (TDP)53 Watt700 Watt
Texture fill rateno data969.9
Floating-point processing powerno data62.08 TFLOPS
ROPsno data24
TMUsno data528
Tensor Coresno data528

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 sizemedium sizedno data
Interfaceno dataPCIe 5.0 x16
Lengthno data268 mm
Widthno data2-slot
Supplementary power connectorsno data8-pin EPS

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 typeLPDDR5-6400HBM3
Maximum RAM amountno data96 GB
Memory bus widthno data5120 Bit
Memory clock speedno data1313 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data1,681 GB/s
Shared memory+-

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectorsno dataNo outputs

API compatibility

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

DirectXno dataN/A
Shader Modelno dataN/A
OpenGLno dataN/A
OpenCLno data3.0
Vulkan-N/A
CUDA-9.0

Pros & cons summary


Recency 17 January 2023 21 March 2023
Chip lithography 5 nm 4 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 53 Watt 700 Watt

Apple M2 Max 38-Core GPU has 1220.8% lower power consumption.

H100 PCIe 96 GB, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 2 months, and a 25% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Apple M2 Max 38-Core GPU and H100 PCIe 96 GB. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Apple M2 Max 38-Core GPU is a notebook card while H100 PCIe 96 GB is a workstation one.


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Apple M2 Max 38-Core GPU
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