Apple M5 Max 40-Core GPU vs GeForce RTX 5090

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking	4	52
Place by popularity	35	not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation	24.58	no data
Power efficiency	12.46	no data
Architecture	Blackwell 2.0 (2025−2026)	no data
GPU code name	GB202	no data
Market segment	Desktop	Laptop
Release date	30 January 2025 (1 year ago)	3 March 2026 (recently)
Launch price (MSRP)	$1,999	no data

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	21760	40
Core clock speed	2017 MHz	no data
Boost clock speed	2407 MHz	no data
Number of transistors	92,200 million	no data
Manufacturing process technology	5 nm	no data
Power consumption (TDP)	575 Watt	no data
Texture fill rate	1,636.8	no data
Floating-point processing power	104.8 TFLOPS	no data
ROPs	176	no data
TMUs	680	no data
Tensor Cores	680	no data
Ray Tracing Cores	170	no data
L1 Cache	21.3 MB	no data
L2 Cache	96 MB	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).

Interface	PCIe 5.0 x16	no data
Length	304 mm	no data
Width	2-slot	no data
Supplementary power connectors	1x 16-pin	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	GDDR7	LPDDR5x-8533
Maximum RAM amount	32 GB	no data
Memory bus width	512 Bit	no data
Memory clock speed	1750 MHz	no data
Memory bandwidth	1.79 TB/s	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	1x HDMI 2.1b, 3x DisplayPort 2.1b	no data
HDMI	+	-

API and SDK support

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

DirectX	12 Ultimate (12_2)	no data
Shader Model	6.8	no data
OpenGL	4.6	no data
OpenCL	3.0	no data
Vulkan	1.4	-
CUDA	12.0	-
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	229 +127%	101 −127%
1440p	193 +239%	57 −239%
4K	149 +314%	36 −314%

Cost per frame, $

1080p	8.73	no data
1440p	10.36	no data
4K	13.42	no data

FPS performance in popular games

Pros & cons summary

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Recency

30 January 2025

3 March 2026

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