16-Core M2 Pro vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050
            16-Core M2 Pro
            
                
            
        
    
            NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050
            
                $249
            
        
    | 2048 Shaders Shared Memory 1398MHz | 2560 Shaders 8GB GDDR6 1777MHz | 
| Peak AI Performance 5.73 TFLOPS FP16 | Peak AI Performance 291.14 TOPS INT4 Tensor Sparse | 
| FP32 5.73 TFLOPS | FP32 9.1 TFLOPS | 
| FP16 5.73 TFLOPS | FP16 9.1 TFLOPS | 
| Form Factor iGPU - | Form Factor PCIe Card 1.9-Slots | 
| TDP Shared | TDP 115W | 
| - - - - - | Power Connectors - - 1x 12-Pin - | 
| GB6 OpenCL N/A 0% | GB6 OpenCL N/A 0% | 
| GB6 Metal N/A 0% | GB6 Metal N/A 0% | 
| GB6 Vulkan N/A 0% | 
| GB5 OpenCL 43,760 14% | GB5 OpenCL 71,805 24% | 
| GB5 CUDA N/A 0% | GB5 CUDA 73,995 21% | 
| GB5 Metal 46,865 26% | GB5 Metal N/A 0% | 
| GB5 Vulkan N/A 0% | GB5 Vulkan 57,700 28% | 
| OCT 2020.1 N/A 0% | OCT 2020.1 N/A 0% | 
| OCT Metal N/A 0% | OCT Metal N/A 0% | 
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                                            5.73 TFLOPS
                                            
                                                
                                            
                                         
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                                            9.1 TFLOPS
                                            
                                                
                                            
                                         
                                            36.39 TFLOPS
                                            
                                                 Tensor (FP16 Accumulate)
                                            
                                         
                                            72.79 TFLOPS
                                            
                                                 Tensor (FP16 Accumulate) Sparse
                                            
                                         
                                            18.2 TFLOPS
                                            
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                                            36.39 TFLOPS
                                            
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                                            5.73 TFLOPS
                                            
                                                
                                            
                                         
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                                            140 GFLOPS
                                            
                                                
                                            
                                         
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                                            9.1 TFLOPS
                                            
                                                
                                            
                                         
                                            18.2 TFLOPS
                                            
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                                            36.39 TFLOPS
                                            
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                                            9.1 TFLOPS
                                            
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                                            18.2 TFLOPS
                                            
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                                            INT4
                                         
                                            145.57 TOPS
                                            
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                                            291.14 TOPS
                                            
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                                            72.79 TOPS
                                            
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                                            4.55 TOPS
                                            
                                                
                                            
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                                            13.7 TOPS
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| Pixel
                                            Fillrate 
                                            89.472 GPixel/s
                                         | Pixel
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                                            56.864 GPixel/s
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| Texture
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                                            178.944 GTexel/s
                                         | Texture
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                                            142.16 GTexel/s
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| ManufacturerApple | ManufacturerNVIDIA | 
| Chip DesignerApple | Chip DesignerNVIDIA | 
| ArchitectureApple Gen 5 | ArchitectureAmpere | 
| FamilyM Series | FamilyGeForce 30 | 
| Codename G14S M2 Pro - - | Codename NV177 GA107 Variant GA107-150-A1 | 
| Market Segment Laptop | Market Segment Desktop | 
| Release Date 1/17/2023 | Release Date 12/16/2022 | 
| - - - | Foundry Samsung - | 
| - - - | Fabrication Node 8N - | 
| - - - | Die Size 200 mm² - | 
| - - | Transistor Count 8.7 Billion - | 
| - - - | Transistor Density 43.50M/mm² - | 
| Form iGPU | Form PCIe Card | 
| Shading Units 2048 Shaders - | Shading Units 2560 Shaders - | 
| Texture Mapping Units 128 TMUs | Texture Mapping Units 80 TMUs | 
| Render Output Units 64 ROPs | Render Output Units 32 ROPs | 
| - - | Tensor Cores 80 T-Cores | 
| - - | Ray-Tracing Cores 20 RT-Cores | 
| - - | Streaming Multiprocessors 20 SMs | 
| - - | - - | 
| Execution Units 256 EUs | - - | 
| Graphics Processing Clusters 16 GPCs | Graphics Processing Clusters 2 GPCs | 
| - - - 1398MHz | - - 1552MHz Base 1777MHz | 
| - - | - - | 
| L1 - - - Unknown | L1 64KB/SM Tex 128KB/SM - - | 
| L2 Unknown | L2 2MB Shared | 
| - - - | - - - | 
| Shared Memory - - | 8GB GDDR6 - | 
| - | Bus Width 128Bit | 
| - - - - - - | Clock 1750MHz Transfer Rate 14GT/s Bandwidth 224GB/s | 
| - - - - - - - - - | - - - - - - - - - | 
| TDP Shared | TDP 115W | 
| - - | - - | 
| - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - No Ports | - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 3x DisplayPort 1.4 - - - - - - - - - - - 1x HDMI 2.1 - - | 
| Max Resolution 7680x4320 | Max Resolution 7680x4320 | 
| Max Resolution Refresh Rate 60Hz | Max Resolution Refresh Rate 60Hz | 
| Variable Refresh Rate - - - | Variable Refresh Rate G-Sync FreeSync - | 
| Display Stream Compression (DSC) Supported | Display Stream Compression (DSC) Supported | 
| Multi Monitor Support 2 | Multi Monitor Support 3 | 
| - - | Content Protection HDCP 2.3 | 
| Model Apple Media Engine 2 | Model NVENC 7 | 
| Codec - - - - - - - - AVC (H.264) HEVC (H.265) - - ProRes ProRes Raw | Codec - - - - - - - - AVC (H.264) HEVC (H.265) - - - - | 
| Model Apple Media Engine 2 | Model NVDEC 5 | 
| Codec - - - - - - - - AVC (H.264) HEVC (H.265) - - ProRes ProRes Raw | Codec MPEG-1 MPEG-2 MPEG-4 - VC-1 VP8 VP9 - AVC (H.264) HEVC (H.265) - AV1 - - | 
| - - - - | Direct X 12 Direct 3D 12_2 | 
| - - - - - - | OpenGL 4.6 OpenCL 3.0 Vulkan 1.2 | 
| - - - - - - - - - - | Shader Model 6.6 CUDA 8.6 - - PureVideo HD VP11 VDPAU Feature Set K | 
| Not a Card - - - | - - - 2x Fans | 
| - - - - - - - - | Power Connectors - - - - - 1x 12-Pin - | 
| - - - - - - | Slots Required 1.9 PCIe Version 4.0 PCIe Lanes 8 | 
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| - - - - - - | Height 112 mm (4.41 in) Width 242 mm (9.53 in) Depth 38 mm (1.5 in) | 
 
                                 
                             
                                 
                             
                                 
                             
                                 
                             
                                 
                             
                                 
                             
                                 
                             
                                 
                             
                                 
                             
                                 
                             
                                 
                             
                                 
                             
                                 
                             
                                 
                             
                                 
                             
                                 
                             
                                 
                             
                                 
                             
                                 
                             
                                 
                             
                                 
                             
                                 
                             
                                 
                             
                                 
                             
                                 
                             
                                 
                             
                                 
                             
                                 
                             
                                 
                             
                                 
                             
                                 
                             
                                 
                             
                                 
                             
                                 
                             
                                 
                             
                                 
                             
                                 
                             
                                 
                             
                                 
                             
                                 
                             
                                 
                             
                                 
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