Quadro P5000 X2 Mobile 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 dataPascal (2016−2021)
GPU code nameno dataGP104
Market segmentLaptopMobile workstation
Release date17 January 2023 (1 year ago)11 January 2017 (7 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 cores382048
Core clock speedno data1164 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1506 MHz
Number of transistorsno data7,200 million
Manufacturing process technology5 nm16 nm
Power consumption (TDP)53 Watt200 Watt
Texture fill rateno data192.8
Floating-point processing powerno data6.169 TFLOPS
ROPsno data64
TMUsno data128

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 dataMXM-B (3.0)

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 typeLPDDR5-6400GDDR5
Maximum RAM amountno data16 GB
Memory bus widthno data256 Bit
Memory clock speedno data1500 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data192.0 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 dataPortable Device Dependent

API compatibility

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

DirectXno data12 (12_1)
Shader Modelno data6.7
OpenGLno data4.6
OpenCLno data3.0
Vulkan-1.3
CUDA-6.1

Pros & cons summary


Recency 17 January 2023 11 January 2017
Chip lithography 5 nm 16 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 53 Watt 200 Watt

Apple M2 Max 38-Core GPU has an age advantage of 6 years, a 220% more advanced lithography process, and 277.4% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Apple M2 Max 38-Core GPU and Quadro P5000 X2 Mobile. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Apple M2 Max 38-Core GPU is a notebook graphics card while Quadro P5000 X2 Mobile is a mobile workstation one.


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Apple M2 Max 38-Core GPU
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