Apple M3 Pro 14-Core GPU vs Quadro RTX 4000

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking109not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation36.28no data
Power efficiency17.01no data
ArchitectureTuring (2018−2022)no data
GPU code nameTU104no data
Market segmentWorkstationLaptop
Release date13 November 2018 (6 years ago)31 October 2023 (1 year ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$899 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 cores230414
Core clock speed1005 MHzno data
Boost clock speed1545 MHzno data
Number of transistors13,600 millionno data
Manufacturing process technology12 nm5 nm
Power consumption (TDP)160 Wattno data
Texture fill rate222.5no data
Floating-point processing power7.119 TFLOPSno data
ROPs64no data
TMUs144no data
Tensor Cores288no data
Ray Tracing Cores36no 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 3.0 x16no data
Length241 mmno data
Width1-slotno data
Supplementary power connectors1x 8-pinno 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 typeGDDR6LPDDR5-6400
Maximum RAM amount8 GBno data
Memory bus width256 Bitno data
Memory clock speed1625 MHzno data
Memory bandwidth416.0 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 Connectors3x DisplayPort, 1x USB Type-Cno data

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 Ultimate (12_1)no data
Shader Model6.5no data
OpenGL4.6no data
OpenCL1.2no data
Vulkan1.2.131-
CUDA7.5-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 13 November 2018 31 October 2023
Chip lithography 12 nm 5 nm

Apple M3 Pro 14-Core GPU has an age advantage of 4 years, and a 140% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Quadro RTX 4000 and Apple M3 Pro 14-Core GPU. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Quadro RTX 4000 is a workstation card while Apple M3 Pro 14-Core GPU is a notebook one.


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NVIDIA Quadro RTX 4000
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