Nvidia RTX 500 Ada Generation Mobile vs Apple M3 Max 40-Core GPU

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Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated202
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiencyno data53.44
Architectureno dataAda Lovelace (2022−2024)
GPU code nameno dataAD107
Market segmentLaptopMobile workstation
Release date31 October 2023 (1 year ago)26 February 2024 (less than a 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 cores402048
Core clock speedno data1485 MHz
Boost clock speedno data2025 MHz
Number of transistorsno data18,900 million
Manufacturing process technology5 nm5 nm
Power consumption (TDP)53 Watt35 Watt
Texture fill rateno data129.6
Floating-point processing powerno data8.294 TFLOPS
ROPsno data32
TMUsno data64
Tensor Coresno data64
Ray Tracing Coresno data16

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 sizedmedium sized
Interfaceno dataPCIe 4.0 x8

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 data4 GB
Memory bus widthno data64 Bit
Memory clock speedno data2000 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data128.0 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 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Modelno data6.8
OpenGLno data4.6
OpenCLno data3.0
Vulkan-1.3
CUDA-8.9

Pros & cons summary


Recency 31 October 2023 26 February 2024
Power consumption (TDP) 53 Watt 35 Watt

Nvidia RTX 500 Ada Generation Mobile has an age advantage of 3 months, and 51.4% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Apple M3 Max 40-Core GPU and RTX 500 Ada Generation Mobile. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Apple M3 Max 40-Core GPU is a notebook graphics card while RTX 500 Ada Generation Mobile is a mobile workstation one.


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Apple M3 Max 40-Core GPU
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