Apple 60-Core M3 Ultra vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Full Specs

Summary

7,680 Shaders 1.38GHz	3,584 Shaders 1.78GHz
Shared Memory819.2GB/sLPDDR5	12GB GDDR6360GB/s placeholder
Peak·FP32·FP16 21.2 TFLOPS	Peak·FP32·FP16 12.74 TFLOPS
Form Factor iGPU	Form Factor PCIe Card
TDP Shared	TDP 170W
Power Connectors -	Power Connectors 1x 12-Pin

Highlights

Peak OPS

Peak OPS FP32 FP16 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

60-Core M3 Ultra21.2 TFLOPSFP16

x1

GeForce RTX 3060407.6 TOPSINT4 Tensor Sparse

x19.23

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Theoretical Performance

Clock Speed1380MHz UC·Boost·OC	Clock Speed1777MHz UC·Base·Boost·OC
Peak OPS 21.2 TFLOPSFP16	Peak OPS 407.6 TOPSINT4 Tensor Sparse
-	Tensor FP16-16 50.95 TFLOPS FP16-16 Tensor Sparse 101.9 TFLOPS Tensor FP16-32 25.48 TFLOPS FP16-32 Tensor Sparse 50.95 TFLOPS
-	BF16 12.74 TFLOPS Tensor BF16 25.48 TFLOPS BF16 Tensor Sparse 50.95 TFLOPS
Tensor TF32 -	Tensor TF32 12.74 TFLOPS
FP32 21.2 TFLOPS	FP32 12.74 TFLOPS
-	FP64 199 GFLOPS
Tensor INT4 -	Tensor INT4 203.8 TOPS
-	Tensor INT8 101.9 TOPS
Ray -	Ray 19.21 TOPS
Pixel Rate 331.2 GPixel/s	Pixel Rate 85.3 GPixel/s
Texture Rate 662.4 GTexel/s	Texture Rate 199 GTexel/s

Core Config

Shaders 7,680 Shaders	Shaders 3,584 Shaders
TMUs 480 TMUs	TMUs 112 TMUs
ROPs 240 ROPs	ROPs 48 ROPs
Tensor Cores -	Tensor Cores 112 T-Cores
RT Cores 60 RT-Cores	RT Cores 28 RT-Cores
EUs 960 EUs	SMs 28 SMs

Clocks

Base Clock -	Base Clock 1.32GHz
Boost Clock 1.38GHz	Boost Clock 1.78GHz

Cache

L2 Cache 16.4MB shared

L2 Cache 3.1MB shared

Memory

Shared MemoryLPDDR5	12GB GDDR6 placeholder
Memory Bus 1024-bit	Memory Bus 192-bit
Memory Speed 6.4GT/s	Memory Speed 15GT/s
Memory Bandwidth 819.2GB/s	Memory Bandwidth 360GB/s
ECC No	ECC No

Power & Thermals

TDP Shared	TDP 170W
Max Temp -	Max Temp 93°C Max

Video Output

Multi-Monitor 8	Multi-Monitor 4
HDCP -	HDCP HDCP 2.3

Ports

-	3x DisplayPort 1.4
-	1x HDMI 2.1

Encoder

Encoder Model 4x Apple Media Engine 3

Encoder Model NVENC 7

Decoder

Decoder Model 2x Apple Media Engine 3

Decoder Model NVDEC 5

Card

Form Factor iGPU	Form Factor PCIe Card
PCIe -	PCIe 1.9-Slots
-	Height 112 mm (4.41") Width 242 mm (9.53") Depth 38 mm (1.5")
Cooling Passive -	Cooling Open-Air 2x Fans
Power Connectors -	Power Connectors 1x 12-Pin

Chip

Manufacturer Apple	Manufacturer NVIDIA
Chip Designer Apple	Chip Designer NVIDIA
Architecture Apple Gen 6	Architecture Ampere
Family M Series	Family GeForce 30
Branding	Branding
Codename G15D	Codename NV176
Chip Variant -	Chip Variant GA106-150-KA-A1
Market Segment Workstation	Market Segment Desktop
Release Date Mar 5, 2025	Release Date Feb 25, 2021

Fabrication

Foundry TSMC	Foundry Samsung
Fabrication Node N3B	Fabrication Node 8N
Die Size 954mm²	Die Size 276mm²
Transistor Count 184 Billion	Transistor Count 13.3 Billion
Transistor Density 193 MTr/mm²	Transistor Density 48.01 MTr/mm²

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Used In

CPUs M3 Ultra (28C60G)	CPUs -
Desktops Mac Studio(M3 Ultra, Early 2025)	Desktops XPS(XD8950, Late 2021)Aurora(R13, Late 2021)Aurora(R14, Late 2021) Show 10 more
All-in-Ones -	All-in-Ones Surface Studio 2+(Late 2022)

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