Apple M2 Max 30-Core GPU vs H100 SXM5

Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot ratednot rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureHopper (2022−2023)no data
GPU code nameGH100no data
Market segmentWorkstationLaptop
Release date22 March 2022 (2 years 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 cores844830
Core clock speed1065 MHzno data
Boost clock speed1780 MHzno data
Number of transistors80,000 millionno data
Manufacturing process technology4 nm5 nm
Power consumption (TDP)700 Wattno data
Texture fill rate939.8no data
Floating-point processing power30.07 TFLOPSno data
ROPs24no data
TMUs528no data
Tensor Cores528no 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 sizeno datamedium sized
InterfacePCIe 5.0 x16no data
Supplementary power connectors8-pin EPSno 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 typeHBM3LPDDR5-6400
Maximum RAM amount80 GBno data
Memory bus width5120 Bitno data
Memory clock speed1500 MHzno data
Memory bandwidth1,920 GB/sno 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 ConnectorsNo outputsno data

API compatibility

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

DirectXN/Ano data
Shader ModelN/Ano data
OpenGLN/Ano data
OpenCL3.0no data
VulkanN/A-
CUDA9.0-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 22 March 2022 17 January 2023
Chip lithography 4 nm 5 nm

H100 SXM5 has a 25% more advanced lithography process.

Apple M2 Max 30-Core GPU, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 9 months.

We couldn't decide between H100 SXM5 and Apple M2 Max 30-Core GPU. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that H100 SXM5 is a workstation card while Apple M2 Max 30-Core GPU is a notebook one.


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NVIDIA H100 SXM5
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