Apple 60-Core M3 Ultra vs NVIDIA A800 Full Specs

Summary

7,680 Shaders 1.38GHz	6,912 Shaders 1.41GHz
Shared Memory819.2GB/sLPDDR5	80GB HBM2e1.94TB/s placeholder
Peak·FP32·FP16 21.2 TFLOPS	Peak·FP32·FP16 19.49 TFLOPS
Form Factor iGPU	Form Factor PCIe Card
TDP Shared	TDP 250W
Power Connectors -	Power Connectors 1x 8-Pin EPS

Highlights

Peak OPS

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

60-Core M3 Ultra21.2 TFLOPSFP16

x1

A8002.5 POPSINT4 Tensor Sparse

x117.70

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Theoretical Performance

Clock Speed1380MHz UC·Boost·OC	Clock Speed1410MHz UC·Base·Boost·OC
Peak OPS 21.2 TFLOPSFP16	Peak OPS 2.5 POPSINT4 Tensor Sparse
-	Tensor FP16-16 311.9 TFLOPS FP16-16 Tensor Sparse 623.7 TFLOPS Tensor FP16-32 311.9 TFLOPS FP16-32 Tensor Sparse 623.7 TFLOPS
-	BF16 38.98 TFLOPS Tensor BF16 311.9 TFLOPS BF16 Tensor Sparse 623.7 TFLOPS
Tensor TF32 -	Tensor TF32 155.9 TFLOPS
FP32 21.2 TFLOPS	FP32 19.49 TFLOPS
-	FP64 9.75 TFLOPS Tensor FP64 19.49 TFLOPS
Tensor INT4 -	Tensor INT4 1.25 POPS
-	Tensor INT8 623.7 TOPS
Pixel Rate 331.2 GPixel/s	Pixel Rate 225.6 GPixel/s
Texture Rate 662.4 GTexel/s	Texture Rate 609.1 GTexel/s

Core Config

Shaders 7,680 Shaders	Shaders 6,912 Shaders
TMUs 480 TMUs	TMUs 432 TMUs
ROPs 240 ROPs	ROPs 160 ROPs
Tensor Cores -	Tensor Cores 432 T-Cores
RT Cores 60 RT-Cores	RT Cores -
EUs 960 EUs	SMs 108 SMs

Clocks

Base Clock -	Base Clock 765MHz
Boost Clock 1.38GHz	Boost Clock 1.41GHz

Cache

L2 Cache 16.4MB shared

L2 Cache 41MB shared

Memory

Shared MemoryLPDDR5	80GB HBM2e placeholder
Memory Bus 1024-bit	Memory Bus 5120-bit
Memory Speed 6.4GT/s	Memory Speed 3GT/s
Memory Bandwidth 819.2GB/s	Memory Bandwidth 1.94TB/s
ECC No	ECC No

Power & Thermals

TDP Shared

TDP 250W

Video Output

Multi-Monitor 8

Multi-Monitor -

Encoder

Encoder Model 4x Apple Media Engine 3

-

Decoder

Decoder Model 2x Apple Media Engine 3

Decoder Model 5x NVDEC 4

Card

Form Factor iGPU	Form Factor PCIe Card
PCIe -	PCIe 2-Slots
-	Height 111 mm (4.37") Width 267 mm (10.51") Depth 40 mm (1.57")
Cooling Passive	Cooling Passive
Power Connectors -	Power Connectors 1x 8-Pin EPS

Chip

Manufacturer Apple	Manufacturer NVIDIA
Chip Designer Apple	Chip Designer NVIDIA
Architecture Apple Gen 6	Architecture Ampere
Family M Series	Family Server
Branding	Branding
Codename G15D	Codename NV170
Market Segment Workstation	Market Segment Server
Release Date Mar 5, 2025	Release Date Jun 28, 2021

Fabrication

Foundry TSMC	Foundry TSMC
Fabrication Node N3B	Fabrication Node 7N
Die Size 954mm²	Die Size 826mm²
Transistor Count 184 Billion	Transistor Count 54.2 Billion
Transistor Density 193 MTr/mm²	Transistor Density 65.62 MTr/mm²

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Used In

CPUs M3 Ultra (28C60G)	CPUs -
Desktops Mac Studio(M3 Ultra, Early 2025)	Desktops -

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