Apple M2 Pro 16-Core GPU vs GeForce RTX 4080 Mobile

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking	27	not rated
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Power efficiency	40.96	no data
Architecture	Ada Lovelace (2022−2024)	no data
GPU code name	AD104	no data
Market segment	Laptop	Laptop
Release date	3 January 2023 (1 year ago)	17 January 2023 (1 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 cores	7424	16
Core clock speed	1290 MHz	no data
Boost clock speed	1665 MHz	no data
Number of transistors	35,800 million	no data
Manufacturing process technology	4 nm	5 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	110 Watt	no data
Texture fill rate	386.3	no data
Floating-point processing power	24.72 TFLOPS	no data
ROPs	80	no data
TMUs	232	no data
Tensor Cores	232	no data
Ray Tracing Cores	58	no data

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 size	large	medium sized
Interface	PCIe 4.0 x16	no data

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	GDDR6	LPDDR5-6400
Maximum RAM amount	12 GB	no data
Memory bus width	192 Bit	no data
Memory clock speed	2250 MHz	no data
Memory bandwidth	432.0 GB/s	no data
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 Connectors

Portable Device Dependent

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API compatibility

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

DirectX	12 Ultimate (12_2)	no data
Shader Model	6.7	no data
OpenGL	4.6	no data
OpenCL	3.0	no data
Vulkan	1.3	-
CUDA	8.9	-

Pros & cons summary

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Chip lithography

4 nm

5 nm

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