Apple 30-Core M3 Max vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Laptop 115W Full Specs

Summary

3,840 Shaders 1.38GHz	3,072 Shaders 2.37GHz
Shared Memory307.2GB/sLPDDR5	8GB GDDR6256GB/s placeholder
Peak·FP32·FP16 10.6 TFLOPS	Peak·FP32·FP16 14.56 TFLOPS
Form Factor iGPU	Form Factor Soldered
TDP Shared	TDP 115W

Highlights

Peak OPS

Peak OPS FP32 FP16 Tensor FP8-16 FP8-16 Tensor Sparse Tensor FP8-32 FP8-32 Tensor Sparse Tensor FP16-16 FP16-16 Tensor Sparse Tensor FP16-32 FP16-32 Tensor Sparse FP64 BF16 Tensor BF16 BF16 Tensor Sparse Tensor TF32 Tensor INT8 Tensor INT4 Memory Bandwidth TDP

30-Core M3 Max10.6 TFLOPSFP16

x1

GeForce RTX 4060 Laptop 115W466 TOPSINT4 Tensor Sparse

x43.97

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Theoretical Performance

Clock Speed1380MHz UC·Boost·OC	Clock Speed2370MHz UC·Base·Boost·OC
Peak OPS 10.6 TFLOPSFP16	Peak OPS 466 TOPSINT4 Tensor Sparse
-	Tensor FP8-16 116.5 TFLOPS FP8-16 Tensor Sparse 233 TFLOPS Tensor FP8-32 58.25 TFLOPS FP8-32 Tensor Sparse 116.5 TFLOPS
-	Tensor FP16-16 58.25 TFLOPS FP16-16 Tensor Sparse 116.5 TFLOPS Tensor FP16-32 29.12 TFLOPS FP16-32 Tensor Sparse 58.25 TFLOPS
-	BF16 14.56 TFLOPS Tensor BF16 29.12 TFLOPS BF16 Tensor Sparse 58.25 TFLOPS
Tensor TF32 -	Tensor TF32 14.56 TFLOPS
FP32 10.6 TFLOPS	FP32 14.56 TFLOPS
-	FP64 227.5 GFLOPS
Tensor INT4 -	Tensor INT4 233 TOPS
-	Tensor INT8 116.5 TOPS
Ray -	Ray 33.66 TOPS
Pixel Rate 165.6 GPixel/s	Pixel Rate 113.8 GPixel/s
Texture Rate 331.2 GTexel/s	Texture Rate 227.5 GTexel/s

Core Config

Shaders 3,840 Shaders	Shaders 3,072 Shaders
TMUs 240 TMUs	TMUs 96 TMUs
ROPs 120 ROPs	ROPs 48 ROPs
Tensor Cores -	Tensor Cores 96 T-Cores
RT Cores 30 RT-Cores	RT Cores 24 RT-Cores
EUs 480 EUs	SMs 24 SMs

Clocks

Base Clock -	Base Clock 2.29GHz
Boost Clock 1.38GHz	Boost Clock 2.37GHz

Cache

L2 Cache 8.2MB shared

L2 Cache 32.8MB shared

Memory

Shared MemoryLPDDR5	8GB GDDR6 placeholder
Memory Bus 384-bit	Memory Bus 128-bit
Memory Speed 6.4GT/s	Memory Speed 16GT/s
Memory Bandwidth 307.2GB/s	Memory Bandwidth 256GB/s

Power & Thermals

TDP Shared

TDP 115W

Video Output

Multi-Monitor 4	Multi-Monitor 4
HDCP -	HDCP HDCP 2.3

Encoder

Encoder Model 2x Apple Media Engine 3

Encoder Model NVENC 8

Decoder

Decoder Model Apple Media Engine 3

Decoder Model NVDEC 5

Card

Form Factor iGPU

Form Factor Soldered

Chip

Manufacturer Apple	Manufacturer NVIDIA
Chip Designer Apple	Chip Designer NVIDIA
Architecture Apple Gen 6	Architecture Ada Lovelace
Family M Series	Family GeForce 40
Branding	Branding
Codename G15M	Codename NV187
Chip Variant -	Chip Variant AD107
Market Segment Desktop	Market Segment Laptop
Release Date Oct 30, 2023	Release Date Feb 22, 2023

Fabrication

Foundry TSMC	Foundry TSMC
Fabrication Node N3B	Fabrication Node 4N
Die Size 477mm²	Die Size 159mm²
Transistor Count 92 Billion	Transistor Count 18.9 Billion
Transistor Density 193 MTr/mm²	Transistor Density 118.9 MTr/mm²

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Used In

CPUs M3 Max (14C30G)	CPUs -
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