RTX 6000 Ada Generation vs Apple M2 Pro 19-Core GPU

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Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated15
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluationno data7.06
Power efficiencyno data17.09
Architectureno dataAda Lovelace (2022−2024)
GPU code nameno dataAD102
Market segmentLaptopWorkstation
Release date17 January 2023 (1 year ago)3 December 2022 (2 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)no data$6,799

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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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 cores1918176
Core clock speed444 MHz915 MHz
Boost clock speed1398 MHz2505 MHz
Number of transistorsno data76,300 million
Manufacturing process technology5 nm5 nm
Power consumption (TDP)20 Watt300 Watt
Texture fill rateno data1,423
Floating-point processing powerno data91.06 TFLOPS
ROPsno data192
TMUsno data568
Tensor Coresno data568
Ray Tracing Coresno data142

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 4.0 x16
Lengthno data267 mm
Widthno data2-slot
Supplementary power connectorsno data1x 16-pin

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 data48 GB
Memory bus widthno data384 Bit
Memory clock speedno data2500 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data960.0 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 data4x DisplayPort 1.4a

API compatibility

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

DirectXno data12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Modelno data6.8
OpenGLno data4.6
OpenCLno data3.0
Vulkan-1.3
CUDA-8.9

Pros & cons summary


Recency 17 January 2023 3 December 2022
Power consumption (TDP) 20 Watt 300 Watt

Apple M2 Pro 19-Core GPU has an age advantage of 1 month, and 1400% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Apple M2 Pro 19-Core GPU and RTX 6000 Ada Generation. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Apple M2 Pro 19-Core GPU is a notebook card while RTX 6000 Ada Generation is a workstation one.


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Apple M2 Pro 19-Core GPU
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