60-Core M3 Ultra vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060
            60-Core M3 Ultra
            
                
            
        
    
            NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060
            
                $329
            
        
    | 7680 Shaders Shared Memory 1398MHz | 3584 Shaders 12GB GDDR6 1777MHz | 
| Peak AI Performance 21.47 TFLOPS FP16 | Peak AI Performance 407.6 TOPS INT4 Tensor Sparse | 
| FP32 21.47 TFLOPS | FP32 12.74 TFLOPS | 
| FP16 21.47 TFLOPS | FP16 12.74 TFLOPS | 
| Form Factor iGPU - | Form Factor PCIe Card 1.9-Slots | 
| TDP Shared | TDP 170W | 
| - - - - - | Power Connectors - - 1x 12-Pin - | 
| GB6 OpenCL N/A 0% | |
| GB6 Metal N/A 0% | GB6 Metal N/A 0% | 
| GB6 Vulkan N/A 0% | 
| GB5 OpenCL N/A 0% | GB5 OpenCL 96,465 32% | 
| GB5 CUDA N/A 0% | GB5 CUDA 99,110 28% | 
| GB5 Metal N/A 0% | GB5 Metal N/A 0% | 
| GB5 Vulkan N/A 0% | GB5 Vulkan 75,845 37% | 
| OCT 2020.1 N/A 0% | OCT 2020.1 305 40% | 
| OCT Metal N/A 0% | OCT Metal N/A 0% | 
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                                            407.6 TOPS
                                         
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                                            21.47 TFLOPS
                                            
                                                
                                            
                                         
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                                            12.74 TFLOPS
                                            
                                                
                                            
                                         
                                            50.95 TFLOPS
                                            
                                                 Tensor (FP16 Accumulate)
                                            
                                         
                                            101.9 TFLOPS
                                            
                                                 Tensor (FP16 Accumulate) Sparse
                                            
                                         
                                            25.48 TFLOPS
                                            
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                                            50.95 TFLOPS
                                            
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                                            21.47 TFLOPS
                                            
                                                
                                            
                                         
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                                            200 GFLOPS
                                            
                                                
                                            
                                         
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                                            12.74 TFLOPS
                                            
                                                
                                            
                                         
                                            25.48 TFLOPS
                                            
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                                            50.95 TFLOPS
                                            
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                                            12.74 TFLOPS
                                            
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                                            25.48 TFLOPS
                                            
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                                            INT4
                                         
                                            203.8 TOPS
                                            
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                                            407.6 TOPS
                                            
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                                            101.9 TOPS
                                            
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                                            203.8 TOPS
                                            
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                                            6.37 TOPS
                                            
                                                
                                            
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                                            19.2 TOPS
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| Pixel
                                            Fillrate 
                                            335.52 GPixel/s
                                         | Pixel
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                                            85.296 GPixel/s
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| Texture
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                                            671.04 GTexel/s
                                         | Texture
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                                            199.024 GTexel/s
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| ManufacturerApple | ManufacturerNVIDIA | 
| Chip DesignerApple | Chip DesignerNVIDIA | 
| ArchitectureApple Gen 6 | ArchitectureAmpere | 
| FamilyM Series | FamilyGeForce 30 | 
| Codename G15D M3 Ultra - - | Codename NV176 GA106 Variant GA106-300-A1 | 
| Market Segment Desktop | Market Segment Desktop | 
| Release Date 3/5/2025 | Release Date 2/25/2021 | 
| - - - | Foundry Samsung - | 
| - - - | Fabrication Node 8N - | 
| - - - | Die Size 276 mm² - | 
| - - | Transistor Count 13.3 Billion - | 
| - - - | Transistor Density 48.01M/mm² - | 
| Form iGPU | Form PCIe Card | 
| Shading Units 7680 Shaders - | Shading Units 3584 Shaders - | 
| Texture Mapping Units 480 TMUs | Texture Mapping Units 112 TMUs | 
| Render Output Units 240 ROPs | Render Output Units 48 ROPs | 
| - - | Tensor Cores 112 T-Cores | 
| Ray-Tracing Cores 60 RT-Cores | Ray-Tracing Cores 28 RT-Cores | 
| - - | Streaming Multiprocessors 28 SMs | 
| - - | - - | 
| Execution Units 960 EUs | - - | 
| Graphics Processing Clusters 60 GPCs | Graphics Processing Clusters 3 GPCs | 
| - - - 1398MHz | - - 1320MHz Base 1777MHz | 
| - - | - - | 
| L1 - - - Unknown | L1 64KB/SM Tex 128KB/SM - - | 
| L2 Unknown | L2 3MB Shared | 
| - - - | - - - | 
| Shared Memory - - | 12GB GDDR6 - | 
| - | Bus Width 192Bit | 
| - - - - - - | Clock 1875MHz Transfer Rate 15GT/s Bandwidth 360GB/s | 
| - - - - - - - - - | - - - - - - - - - | 
| TDP Shared | TDP 170W | 
| - - | Temp 93°C Max | 
| - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 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 8 | Multi Monitor Support 4 | 
| - - | Content Protection HDCP 2.3 | 
| Model 4x Apple Media Engine 3 | Model NVENC 7 | 
| Codec - - - - - - - - AVC (H.264) HEVC (H.265) - - ProRes ProRes Raw | Codec - - - - - - - - AVC (H.264) HEVC (H.265) - - - - | 
| Model 2x Apple Media Engine 3 | Model NVDEC 5 | 
| Codec - - - - - - - - AVC (H.264) HEVC (H.265) - AV1 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 16 | 
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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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