Apple M5 Max 40-Core GPU vs RTX 5880 Ada Generation

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking4152
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency16.21no data
ArchitectureAda Lovelace (2022−2024)no data
GPU code nameAD102no data
Market segmentWorkstationLaptop
Release date5 January 2024 (2 years ago)3 March 2026 (less than a 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 cores1408040
Core clock speed975 MHzno data
Boost clock speed2460 MHzno data
Number of transistors76,300 millionno data
Manufacturing process technology5 nmno data
Power consumption (TDP)285 Wattno data
Texture fill rate1,082no data
Floating-point processing power69.27 TFLOPSno data
ROPs176no data
TMUs440no data
Tensor Cores440no data
Ray Tracing Cores110no data
L1 Cache13.8 MBno data
L2 Cache72 MBno 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).

InterfacePCIe 4.0 x16no data
Length267 mmno data
Width2-slotno data
Supplementary power connectors1x 16-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 typeGDDR6LPDDR5x-8533
Maximum RAM amount48 GBno data
Memory bus width384 Bitno data
Memory clock speed2250 MHzno data
Memory bandwidth864.0 GB/sno 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 Connectors4x DisplayPort 1.4ano data

API and SDK support

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

DirectX12 Ultimate (12_2)no data
Shader Model6.8no data
OpenGL4.6no data
OpenCL3.0no data
Vulkan1.3-
CUDA8.9-
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 HDno data101
1440pno data57
4Kno data36

Pros & cons summary


Recency 5 January 2024 3 March 2026

Apple M5 Max 40-Core GPU has an age advantage of 2 years.

We couldn't decide between RTX 5880 Ada Generation and M5 Max 40-Core GPU. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that RTX 5880 Ada Generation is a workstation graphics card while Apple M5 Max 40-Core GPU is a notebook one.

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