Apple M3 Max 40-Core GPU vs NVIDIA Quadro T2000 Max-Q
Apple M3 Max 40-Core GPU ► remove from comparison
The Apple M3 Max 40-Core GPU is a self-designed graphics card in the Apple M3 SoC and according to Apple with forty cores. According to Apple, the GPU uses a new architecture and now offers dynamic caching, mesh shading and ray tracing acceleration.
The GPU can access up to 128 GB LPDDR5-6400 unified memory via a 512 bit memory bus (max 400 GBit/s). Thanks to dynamic caching, the GPU should only reserve as much memory as is required.
Since the SoC is manufactured in the current 3nm (probably N3B) at TSMC. According to powermetrics, the GPU requires up to 60 watts (chip incl. CPU total 78 watts).
NVIDIA Quadro T2000 Max-Q ► remove from comparison
The Nvidia Quadro T2000 with Max-Q Design is a professional mobile graphics card that is based on the Turing architecture (TU117 chip). It is based on the consumer desktop GTX 1650 Ti therefore currently between a mobile GTX 1650 and GTX 1660 Ti . The chip is manufactured in 12nm FinFET at TSMC. Compared to the normal Quadro T2000 , the Max-Q variants are clocked lower and work in a more efficient state. Currently, we know of two variants with different clock speeds and power consumptions (35 and 40 W).
Model Shader TGP (W) Base (MHz) Boost (MHz) Quadro T2000 Mobile 1024 60 1575 1785 Quadro T2000 Max-Q 1024 40 1200 1620 Quadro T2000 Max-Q 1024 35 930 1500 GeForce GTX 1650 Ti (Desktop) 1024 75? 1530 1725 GeForce GTX 1660 Ti Mobile 1536 80 1455 1590 GeForce GTX 1650 Mobile 896 50 1395 1560
The Turing generation did not only introduce raytracing for the RTX cards, but also optimized the architecture of the cores and caches. According to Nvidia the CUDA cores offer now a concurrent execution of floating point and integer operations for increased performance in compute-heavy workloads of modern games. Furthermore, the caches were reworked (new unified memory architecture with twice the cache compared to Pascal). This leads to up to 50% more instructions per clock and a 40% more power efficient usage compared to Pascal.
The performance in professional apps should be clearly lower than a normal (Max-P) Quadro T2000 due to the lower clock speeds, but still ahead the slower Quadro T1000 due to the higher shader count. Compared to consumer cards, the mobile GTX 1650 should be still slower.
Thanks to the relative low power consumption of the Quadro T2000 Max-Q, the GPU is suited for thin and light laptops. The used TU116 chip is manufactured in 12nm FFN at TSMC.
Apple M3 Max 40-Core GPU NVIDIA Quadro T2000 Max-Q Quadro Turing Series Pipelines 40 - unified 1024 - unified Memory Type LPDDR5-6400 GDDR5 Shared Memory no no Power Consumption 53 Watt 35 - 40 Watt technology 5 nm 12 nm Notebook Size medium sized medium sized Date of Announcement 31.10.2023 27.05.2019 Codename N19P-Q3 MAX-Q Architecture Turing Core Speed 930 / 1200 - 1500 / 1620 (Boost) MHz Memory Speed 8000 MHz Memory Bus Width 128 Bit Max. Amount of Memory 4 GB API DirectX 12_1, OpenGL 4.6 Transistors 4.7 Billion
CPU in M3 Max 40-Core GPU GPU Base Speed GPU Boost / Turbo Apple M3 Max 16-Core 16 x 2748 MHz, 78 W ? MHz ? MHz
Benchmarks 3DMark - 3DMark Time Spy Score
min: 3348 avg: 3352 median: 3352 (10%) max: 3356 Points
3DMark - 3DMark Time Spy Graphics
min: 3066 avg: 3094 median: 3094 (8%) max: 3122 Points
3DMark - 3DMark Ice Storm Unlimited Graphics
75193 Points (9%)
3DMark - 3DMark Cloud Gate Score
min: 21582 avg: 24992 median: 24991.5 (27%) max: 28401 Points
3DMark - 3DMark Cloud Gate Graphics
min: 39803 avg: 41106 median: 41106 (11%) max: 42409 Points
3DMark - 3DMark Fire Strike Standard Score
min: 7320 avg: 7544 median: 7543.5 (13%) max: 7767 Points
3DMark - 3DMark Fire Strike Standard Graphics
min: 8107 avg: 8262 median: 8261.5 (9%) max: 8416 Points
3DMark - 3DMark Wild Life Extreme Unlimited
min: 31268 avg: 31336 median: 31335.5 (36%) max: 31403 Points
3DMark 11 - 3DM11 Performance Score
min: 11695 avg: 11907 median: 11907 (17%) max: 12119 Points
3DMark 11 - 3DM11 Performance GPU
min: 11454 avg: 11461 median: 11461 (10%) max: 11468 Points
3DMark Vantage 3DM Vant. Perf. total + NVIDIA Quadro T2000 Max-Q 3DMark Vantage - 3DM Vant. Perf. total
39269 Points (11%)
3DM Vant. Perf. GPU no PhysX + NVIDIA Quadro T2000 Max-Q 3DMark Vantage - 3DM Vant. Perf. GPU no PhysX
36812 Points (21%)
3DMark 06 3DMark 06 - Standard 1280x1024 + NVIDIA Quadro T2000 Max-Q
36376 Points (48%)
Blender - Blender 3.3 Classroom METAL *
min: 29.6 avg: 30.8 median: 30.8 (3%) max: 32 Seconds
SPECviewperf 12 specvp12 sw-03 + NVIDIA Quadro T2000 Max-Q SPECviewperf 12 - specvp12 sw-03
min: 94 avg: 97.4 median: 97.4 (24%) max: 100.8 fps
specvp12 snx-02 + NVIDIA Quadro T2000 Max-Q SPECviewperf 12 - specvp12 snx-02
min: 74.5 avg: 74.6 median: 74.6 (11%) max: 74.6 fps
specvp12 showcase-01 + NVIDIA Quadro T2000 Max-Q SPECviewperf 12 - specvp12 showcase-01
min: 37.81 avg: 40.3 median: 40.3 (9%) max: 42.75 fps
specvp12 mediacal-01 + NVIDIA Quadro T2000 Max-Q SPECviewperf 12 - specvp12 mediacal-01
min: 28.57 avg: 32.1 median: 32.1 (8%) max: 35.53 fps
specvp12 maya-04 + NVIDIA Quadro T2000 Max-Q SPECviewperf 12 - specvp12 maya-04
min: 50.4 avg: 50.7 median: 50.7 (14%) max: 51 fps
specvp12 energy-01 + NVIDIA Quadro T2000 Max-Q SPECviewperf 12 - specvp12 energy-01
min: 6.31 avg: 7.1 median: 7.1 (6%) max: 7.79 fps
specvp12 creo-01 + NVIDIA Quadro T2000 Max-Q SPECviewperf 12 - specvp12 creo-01
min: 88.3 avg: 89 median: 89 (36%) max: 89.6 fps
specvp12 catia-04 + NVIDIA Quadro T2000 Max-Q SPECviewperf 12 - specvp12 catia-04
min: 88.9 avg: 90.5 median: 90.5 (15%) max: 92 fps
specvp12 3dsmax-05 + NVIDIA Quadro T2000 Max-Q SPECviewperf 12 - specvp12 3dsmax-05
min: 93.7 avg: 93.9 median: 93.9 (16%) max: 94 fps
SPECviewperf 13 specvp13 sw-04 + NVIDIA Quadro T2000 Max-Q SPECviewperf 13 - specvp13 sw-04
min: 97.2 avg: 100.6 median: 100.6 (27%) max: 103.9 fps
specvp13 snx-03 + NVIDIA Quadro T2000 Max-Q SPECviewperf 13 - specvp13 snx-03
min: 139.4 avg: 141.6 median: 141.6 (16%) max: 143.8 fps
specvp13 showcase-02 + NVIDIA Quadro T2000 Max-Q SPECviewperf 13 - specvp13 showcase-02
min: 37.56 avg: 40 median: 40 (9%) max: 42.39 fps
specvp13 medical-02 + NVIDIA Quadro T2000 Max-Q SPECviewperf 13 - specvp13 medical-02
min: 41.71 avg: 44.9 median: 44.9 (9%) max: 48.02 fps
specvp13 maya-05 + NVIDIA Quadro T2000 Max-Q SPECviewperf 13 - specvp13 maya-05
min: 105.7 avg: 108 median: 108 (12%) max: 110.2 fps
specvp13 energy-02 + NVIDIA Quadro T2000 Max-Q SPECviewperf 13 - specvp13 energy-02
min: 14.87 avg: 15.3 median: 15.3 (5%) max: 15.66 fps
specvp13 creo-02 + NVIDIA Quadro T2000 Max-Q SPECviewperf 13 - specvp13 creo-02
min: 109.6 avg: 113.2 median: 113.2 (17%) max: 116.8 fps
specvp13 catia-05 + NVIDIA Quadro T2000 Max-Q SPECviewperf 13 - specvp13 catia-05
min: 134.6 avg: 139.3 median: 139.3 (15%) max: 143.9 fps
specvp13 3dsmax-06 + NVIDIA Quadro T2000 Max-Q SPECviewperf 13 - specvp13 3dsmax-06
min: 88.9 avg: 91.1 median: 91.1 (16%) max: 93.3 fps
Cinebench R10 Cinebench R10 Shading (32bit) + NVIDIA Quadro T2000 Max-Q Cinebench R10 - Cinebench R10 Shading (32bit)
5840 Points (4%)
Cinebench R11.5 Cinebench R11.5 OpenGL 64 Bit + NVIDIA Quadro T2000 Max-Q Cinebench R11.5 - Cinebench R11.5 OpenGL 64 Bit
141.2 fps (49%)
Cinebench R15 Cinebench R15 OpenGL 64 Bit + Apple M3 Max 40-Core GPU Cinebench R15 - Cinebench R15 OpenGL 64 Bit
min: 136.23 avg: 137.4 median: 137.4 (8%) max: 138.52 fps
Cinebench R15 OpenGL 64 Bit + NVIDIA Quadro T2000 Max-Q
min: 216 avg: 220 median: 220 (13%) max: 224 fps
GPU TDP ? TDP 60 W 100% 62%
Cinebench R15 OpenGL Ref. Match 64 Bit + Apple M3 Max 40-Core GPU Cinebench R15 - Cinebench R15 OpenGL Ref. Match 64 Bit
99.5 % (100%)
Cinebench R15 OpenGL Ref. Match 64 Bit + NVIDIA Quadro T2000 Max-Q
99.6 % (100%)
GPU TDP ? TDP 60 W 100% 100%
GFXBench - GFXBench 5.0 4K Aztec Ruins High Tier Offscreen
min: 188.2 avg: 196 median: 196 (80%) max: 203.7 fps
GFXBench - GFXBench 5.0 Aztec Ruins High Tier Offscreen
min: 416 avg: 431 median: 431 (78%) max: 446 fps
64.8 fps (12%)
GPU TDP ? TDP 60 W 15% 100%
GFXBench - GFXBench 5.0 Aztec Ruins Normal Tier Offscreen
min: 858 avg: 863 median: 863 (64%) max: 868 fps
133.4 fps (10%)
GPU TDP ? TDP 60 W 15% 100%
GFXBench - GFXBench Car Chase Offscreen
min: 556 avg: 560 median: 560 (63%) max: 564 fps
150.8 fps (17%)
GPU TDP ? TDP 60 W 27% 100%
GFXBench 3.1 - GFXBench Manhattan ES 3.1 Offscreen
min: 1163 avg: 1178 median: 1178 (25%) max: 1193 fps
234.9 fps (5%)
GPU TDP ? TDP 60 W 20% 100%
GFXBench 3.0 - GFXBench 3.0 Manhattan Offscreen
min: 1557 avg: 1573 median: 1573 (92%) max: 1589 fps
255.2 fps (15%)
GPU TDP ? TDP 60 W 16% 100%
GFXBench (DX / GLBenchmark) 2.7 GFXBench T-Rex HD Offscreen C24Z16 + Apple M3 Max 40-Core GPU GFXBench (DX / GLBenchmark) 2.7 - GFXBench T-Rex HD Offscreen C24Z16
min: 2893 avg: 2942 median: 2941.5 (23%) max: 2990 fps
GFXBench T-Rex HD Offscreen C24Z16 + NVIDIA Quadro T2000 Max-Q
622 fps (5%)
GPU TDP ? TDP 60 W 21% 100%
Geekbench 6.2 - Geekbench 6.2 GPU OpenCL
min: 91413 avg: 91416 median: 91415.5 (26%) max: 91418 Points
Geekbench 6.2 - Geekbench 6.2 GPU Metal
min: 154675 avg: 155214 median: 155214 (100%) max: 155752 Points
LuxMark v2.0 64Bit - LuxMark v2.0 Room GPU
1640 Samples/s (7%)
LuxMark v2.0 64Bit - LuxMark v2.0 Sala GPU
3050 Samples/s (5%)
ComputeMark v2.1 - ComputeMark v2.1 Result
6331 Points (7%)
Power Consumption - The Witcher 3 Power Consumption - external Monitor *
min: 87.7 avg: 91.6 median: 91.6 (13%) max: 95.4 Watt
Power Consumption - Witcher 3 Power Consumption *
min: 92.5 avg: 100.8 median: 100.8 (22%) max: 109 Watt
min: 76.7 avg: 83.3 median: 83.3 (18%) max: 89.9 Watt
GPU TDP ? TDP 60 W 105% 100%
Power Consumption - Witcher 3 ultra Power Efficiency
min: 0.633 avg: 0.8 median: 0.8 (73%) max: 0.995 fps per Watt
min: 0.3604 avg: 0.4 median: 0.4 (36%) max: 0.4355 fps per Watt
GPU TDP ? TDP 60 W 49% 100%
Power Consumption - Witcher 3 ultra Power Efficiency - external Monitor
min: 0.723 avg: 0.9 median: 0.9 (73%) max: 1.207 fps per Watt
Emissions Witcher 3 Fan Noise + Apple M3 Max 40-Core GPU Emissions - Witcher 3 Fan Noise
min: 42.8 avg: 43.1 median: 43.1 (69%) max: 43.4 dB(A)
Witcher 3 Fan Noise + NVIDIA Quadro T2000 Max-Q
min: 34.7 avg: 36.9 median: 36.9 (59%) max: 39 dB(A)
GPU TDP ? TDP 60 W 85% 100%
Average Benchmarks Apple M3 Max 40-Core GPU → 100% n=8 Average Benchmarks NVIDIA Quadro T2000 Max-Q → 47% n=8
- Range of benchmark values for this graphics card
- Average benchmark values for this graphics card
* Smaller numbers mean a higher performance
1 This benchmark is not used for the average calculation
Game Benchmarks The following benchmarks stem from our benchmarks of review laptops. The performance depends on the used graphics memory, clock rate, processor, system settings, drivers, and operating systems. So the results don't have to be representative for all laptops with this GPU. For detailed information on the benchmark results, click on the fps number.
100%
M3 Max 40-Core GPU:
242 fps
100%
M3 Max 40-Core GPU:
207 212 ~ 210 fps
100%
M3 Max 40-Core GPU:
138 139 ~ 139 fps
100%
M3 Max 40-Core GPU:
97 121 ~ 109 fps
100%
M3 Max 40-Core GPU:
82 82 ~ 82 fps
100%
M3 Max 40-Core GPU:
45 fps
100%
M3 Max 40-Core GPU:
44 fps
100%
M3 Max 40-Core GPU:
43.7 44.4 ~ 44 fps
100%
M3 Max 40-Core GPU:
40.8 42.8 ~ 42 fps
100%
M3 Max 40-Core GPU:
35.5 37.4 ~ 36 fps
100%
M3 Max 40-Core GPU:
96 fps
100%
M3 Max 40-Core GPU:
90 fps
100%
M3 Max 40-Core GPU:
60 fps
100%
M3 Max 40-Core GPU:
51 fps
Quadro T2000 Max-Q:
182 fps
Quadro T2000 Max-Q:
96 fps
Quadro T2000 Max-Q:
78 fps
Quadro T2000 Max-Q:
55 fps
Quadro T2000 Max-Q:
263.3 fps
Quadro T2000 Max-Q:
77.5 fps
Quadro T2000 Max-Q:
47.6 fps
Quadro T2000 Max-Q:
35.1 fps
Quadro T2000 Max-Q:
147.4 fps
Quadro T2000 Max-Q:
85.5 fps
Quadro T2000 Max-Q:
58.1 fps
Quadro T2000 Max-Q:
141.3 fps
Quadro T2000 Max-Q:
50.3 fps
Quadro T2000 Max-Q:
44.5 fps
Quadro T2000 Max-Q:
64.2 fps
Quadro T2000 Max-Q:
53.1 fps
Quadro T2000 Max-Q:
47 fps
Quadro T2000 Max-Q:
179 fps
Quadro T2000 Max-Q:
94.7 fps
Quadro T2000 Max-Q:
77.7 fps
Quadro T2000 Max-Q:
51 fps
Quadro T2000 Max-Q:
123.4 fps
Quadro T2000 Max-Q:
56 fps
Quadro T2000 Max-Q:
35.8 fps
Quadro T2000 Max-Q:
27.3 fps
Quadro T2000 Max-Q:
120.2 fps
Quadro T2000 Max-Q:
40.4 fps
Quadro T2000 Max-Q:
28.3 fps
Quadro T2000 Max-Q:
148.4 fps
100%
M3 Max 40-Core GPU:
170 170 ~ 170 fps
35%
Quadro T2000 Max-Q:
60.3 fps
100%
M3 Max 40-Core GPU:
109 113 ~ 111 fps
33%
Quadro T2000 Max-Q:
36.3 fps
100%
M3 Max 40-Core GPU:
80 84 ~ 82 fps
30%
Quadro T2000 Max-Q:
24.4 fps
100%
M3 Max 40-Core GPU:
54 58 ~ 56 fps
Quadro T2000 Max-Q:
27.9 fps
Quadro T2000 Max-Q:
12.9 fps
Quadro T2000 Max-Q:
9.8 fps
Quadro T2000 Max-Q:
271 fps
Quadro T2000 Max-Q:
86.1 fps
Quadro T2000 Max-Q:
69.9 fps
Quadro T2000 Max-Q:
40.3 fps
Quadro T2000 Max-Q:
83 fps
Quadro T2000 Max-Q:
58 fps
Quadro T2000 Max-Q:
55 fps
Quadro T2000 Max-Q:
50 fps
Quadro T2000 Max-Q:
91.5 fps
Quadro T2000 Max-Q:
41.7 fps
Quadro T2000 Max-Q:
31.2 fps
Quadro T2000 Max-Q:
24.6 fps
Quadro T2000 Max-Q:
144 fps
Quadro T2000 Max-Q:
86.4 fps
Quadro T2000 Max-Q:
72.7 fps
Quadro T2000 Max-Q:
64.9 fps
Quadro T2000 Max-Q:
71 fps
Quadro T2000 Max-Q:
53 fps
Quadro T2000 Max-Q:
45 fps
Quadro T2000 Max-Q:
25 fps
Quadro T2000 Max-Q:
101 fps
100%
M3 Max 40-Core GPU:
145 150 ~ 148 fps
38%
Quadro T2000 Max-Q:
56 fps
100%
M3 Max 40-Core GPU:
135 143 ~ 139 fps
35%
Quadro T2000 Max-Q:
48 fps
100%
M3 Max 40-Core GPU:
118 122 ~ 120 fps
35%
Quadro T2000 Max-Q:
42 fps
100%
M3 Max 40-Core GPU:
86 88 ~ 87 fps
100%
M3 Max 40-Core GPU:
56 fps
100%
M3 Max 40-Core GPU:
53 54 ~ 54 fps
100%
M3 Max 40-Core GPU:
50 51 ~ 51 fps
100%
M3 Max 40-Core GPU:
49 49 ~ 49 fps
Quadro T2000 Max-Q:
91.9 101 ~ 96 fps
Quadro T2000 Max-Q:
76 87 ~ 82 fps
Quadro T2000 Max-Q:
64.8 73 ~ 69 fps
Quadro T2000 Max-Q:
47.2 fps
Quadro T2000 Max-Q:
91 fps
Quadro T2000 Max-Q:
25.7 fps
Quadro T2000 Max-Q:
145 153 ~ 149 fps
Quadro T2000 Max-Q:
132 140 ~ 136 fps
Quadro T2000 Max-Q:
118 130 ~ 124 fps
Quadro T2000 Max-Q:
108 118 ~ 113 fps
Quadro T2000 Max-Q:
181 fps
Quadro T2000 Max-Q:
107.6 fps
100%
M3 Max 40-Core GPU:
87 fps
72%
Quadro T2000 Max-Q:
62.5 fps
100%
M3 Max 40-Core GPU:
69 92 ~ 81 fps
41%
Quadro T2000 Max-Q:
32.4 33.4 ~ 33 fps
100%
M3 Max 40-Core GPU:
77 79 ~ 78 fps
100%
M3 Max 40-Core GPU:
53 54 ~ 54 fps
100%
M3 Max 40-Core GPU:
51 52 ~ 52 fps
Quadro T2000 Max-Q:
79.5 fps
Average Gaming Apple M3 Max 40-Core GPU → 100% Average Gaming 30-70 fps → 100%
Average Gaming NVIDIA Quadro T2000 Max-Q → 40% Average Gaming 30-70 fps → 41%