Apple M2 Max 38-Core GPU vs Quadro K2000

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking690not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation0.36no data
Power efficiency5.60no data
ArchitectureKepler (2012−2018)no data
GPU code nameGK107no data
Market segmentWorkstationLaptop
Release date1 March 2013 (11 years ago)17 January 2023 (1 year ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$599 no data

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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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 cores38438
Core clock speed954 MHzno data
Number of transistors1,270 millionno data
Manufacturing process technology28 nm5 nm
Power consumption (TDP)51 Watt53 Watt
Texture fill rate30.53no data
Floating-point processing power0.7327 TFLOPSno data
ROPs16no data
TMUs32no 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 2.0 x16no data
Length202 mmno data
Width1-slotno data
Supplementary power connectorsNoneno 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 typeGDDR5LPDDR5-6400
Maximum RAM amount2 GBno data
Memory bus width128 Bitno data
Memory clock speed1000 MHzno data
Memory bandwidth64 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 Connectors1x DVI, 2x DisplayPortno data

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (11_0)no data
Shader Model5.1no data
OpenGL4.6no data
OpenCL1.2no data
Vulkan+-
CUDA3.0-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 1 March 2013 17 January 2023
Chip lithography 28 nm 5 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 51 Watt 53 Watt

Quadro K2000 has 3.9% lower power consumption.

Apple M2 Max 38-Core GPU, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 9 years, and a 460% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Quadro K2000 and Apple M2 Max 38-Core GPU. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Quadro K2000 is a workstation card while Apple M2 Max 38-Core GPU is a notebook one.


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NVIDIA Quadro K2000
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