Jetson TK1 vs Apple M2 Max 38-Core GPU

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 dataKepler 2.0 (2013−2015)
GPU code nameno dataGK20A
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date17 January 2023 (1 year ago)15 October 2014 (10 years 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 cores38192
Core clock speedno data756 MHz
Boost clock speedno data951 MHz
Manufacturing process technology5 nm28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)53 Watt8 Watt
Texture fill rateno data7.608
Floating-point processing powerno data0.3652 TFLOPS
ROPsno data4
TMUsno data8

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 1.0 x1

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 typeLPDDR5-6400DDR3L
Maximum RAM amountno data2 GB
Memory bus widthno data64 Bit
Memory clock speedno data467 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data7.472 GB/s
Shared memory-no data

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 dataPortable Device Dependent

API compatibility

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

DirectXno data12 (11_0)
Shader Modelno data6.5 (5.1)
OpenGLno dataES 3.1
OpenCLno dataN/A
Vulkan-1.3
CUDA-3.2

Pros & cons summary


Recency 17 January 2023 15 October 2014
Chip lithography 5 nm 28 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 53 Watt 8 Watt

Apple M2 Max 38-Core GPU has an age advantage of 8 years, and a 460% more advanced lithography process.

Jetson TK1, on the other hand, has 562.5% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Apple M2 Max 38-Core GPU and Jetson TK1. We've got no test results to judge.


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