GeForce RTX 2080 Ti vs Apple M5 Max 40-Core GPU

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking	52	67
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation	no data	17.19
Power efficiency	no data	15.82
Architecture	no data	Turing (2018−2022)
GPU code name	no data	TU102
Market segment	Laptop	Desktop
Release date	3 March 2026 (less than a year ago)	20 September 2018 (7 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)	no data	$999

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

The higher the ratio, the better. We use the manufacturer's recommended prices.

Performance to price scatter graph

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 cores	40	4352
Core clock speed	no data	1350 MHz
Boost clock speed	no data	1545 MHz
Number of transistors	no data	18,600 million
Manufacturing process technology	no data	12 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	no data	250 Watt
Texture fill rate	no data	420.2
Floating-point processing power	no data	13.45 TFLOPS
ROPs	no data	88
TMUs	no data	272
Tensor Cores	no data	544
Ray Tracing Cores	no data	68
L1 Cache	no data	4.3 MB
L2 Cache	no data	5.5 MB

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).

Interface	no data	PCIe 3.0 x16
Length	no data	267 mm
Width	no data	2-slot
Supplementary power connectors	no data	2x 8-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 type	LPDDR5x-8533	GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount	no data	11 GB
Memory bus width	no data	352 Bit
Memory clock speed	no data	1750 MHz
Memory bandwidth	no data	616.0 GB/s
Shared memory	no data	-

Connectivity and outputs

This section shows the types and number of video connectors on each GPU. The data applies specifically to desktop reference models (for example, NVIDIA’s Founders Edition). OEM partners often modify both the number and types of ports. On notebook GPUs, video‐output options are determined by the laptop’s design rather than the graphics chip itself.

Display Connectors	no data	1x HDMI 2.0, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a, 1x USB Type-C
HDMI	-	+
G-SYNC support	-	+

Supported technologies

Supported technological solutions. This information will prove useful if you need some particular technology for your purposes.

VR Ready

no data

+

API and SDK support

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

DirectX	no data	12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model	no data	6.8
OpenGL	no data	4.6
OpenCL	no data	3.0
Vulkan	-	1.3
CUDA	-	7.5
DLSS	-	+

Gaming performance

Let's see how good the compared graphics cards are for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in FPS.

Average FPS across all PC games

Here are the average frames per second in a large set of popular games across different resolutions:

Full HD	107 −54.2%	165 +54.2%
1440p	60 −102%	121 +102%
4K	38 −142%	92 +142%

Cost per frame, $

1080p	no data	6.05
1440p	no data	8.26
4K	no data	10.86

FPS performance in popular games

Pros & cons summary

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Recency

3 March 2026

20 September 2018