GeForce RTX 3060 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	75
Place by popularity	not in top-100	16
Cost-effectiveness evaluation	no data	56.67
Power efficiency	no data	18.68
Architecture	no data	Ampere (2020−2025)
GPU code name	no data	GA104
Market segment	Laptop	Desktop
Release date	3 March 2026 (less than a year ago)	1 December 2020 (5 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)	no data	$399

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	4864
Core clock speed	no data	1410 MHz
Boost clock speed	no data	1665 MHz
Number of transistors	no data	17,400 million
Manufacturing process technology	no data	8 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	no data	200 Watt
Texture fill rate	no data	253.1
Floating-point processing power	no data	16.2 TFLOPS
ROPs	no data	80
TMUs	no data	152
Tensor Cores	no data	152
Ray Tracing Cores	no data	38
L1 Cache	no data	4.8 MB
L2 Cache	no data	4 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 4.0 x16
Length	no data	242 mm
Width	no data	2-slot
Supplementary power connectors	no data	1x 12-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	8 GB
Memory bus width	no data	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	no data	1750 MHz
Memory bandwidth	no data	448.0 GB/s
Shared memory	no data	-
Resizable BAR	-	+

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, 3x DisplayPort
HDMI	-	+

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	6.5
OpenGL	no data	4.6
OpenCL	no data	2.0
Vulkan	-	1.2
CUDA	-	8.6
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 −27.1%	136 +27.1%
1440p	60 −25%	75 +25%
4K	38 −26.3%	48 +26.3%

Cost per frame, $

1080p	no data	2.93
1440p	no data	5.32
4K	no data	8.31

FPS performance in popular games

Pros & cons summary

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Recency

3 March 2026

1 December 2020