NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 vs Apple 60-Core M3 Ultra Full Specs

Summary

2,560 Shaders 1.78GHz	7,680 Shaders 1.38GHz
8GB GDDR6224GB/s placeholder	Shared Memory819.2GB/sLPDDR5
Peak·FP32·FP16 9.1 TFLOPS	Peak·FP32·FP16 21.2 TFLOPS
Form Factor PCIe Card	Form Factor iGPU
TDP 115W	TDP Shared
Power Connectors 1x 12-Pin	Power Connectors -

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

GeForce RTX 3050291.1 TOPSINT4 Tensor Sparse

x13.74

60-Core M3 Ultra21.2 TFLOPSFP16

x1

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Theoretical Performance

Clock Speed1777MHz UC·Base·Boost·OC	Clock Speed1380MHz UC·Boost·OC
Peak OPS 291.1 TOPSINT4 Tensor Sparse	Peak OPS 21.2 TFLOPSFP16
Tensor FP16-16 36.39 TFLOPS FP16-16 Tensor Sparse 72.79 TFLOPS Tensor FP16-32 18.2 TFLOPS FP16-32 Tensor Sparse 36.39 TFLOPS	-
BF16 9.1 TFLOPS Tensor BF16 18.2 TFLOPS BF16 Tensor Sparse 36.39 TFLOPS	-
Tensor TF32 9.1 TFLOPS	Tensor TF32 -
FP32 9.1 TFLOPS	FP32 21.2 TFLOPS
FP64 142.2 GFLOPS	-
Tensor INT4 145.6 TOPS	Tensor INT4 -
Tensor INT8 72.79 TOPS	-
Ray 13.72 TOPS	Ray -
Pixel Rate 56.9 GPixel/s	Pixel Rate 331.2 GPixel/s
Texture Rate 142.2 GTexel/s	Texture Rate 662.4 GTexel/s

Core Config

Shaders 2,560 Shaders	Shaders 7,680 Shaders
TMUs 80 TMUs	TMUs 480 TMUs
ROPs 32 ROPs	ROPs 240 ROPs
Tensor Cores 80 T-Cores	Tensor Cores -
RT Cores 20 RT-Cores	RT Cores 60 RT-Cores
SMs 20 SMs	EUs 960 EUs

Clocks

Base Clock 1.55GHz	Base Clock -
Boost Clock 1.78GHz	Boost Clock 1.38GHz

Cache

L1 64KB/SM Tex	L1 -
L2 Cache 2MB shared	L2 Cache 16MB shared

Memory

8GB GDDR6 placeholder	Shared MemoryLPDDR5
Memory Bus 128-bit	Memory Bus 1024-bit
Memory Speed 14GT/s	Memory Speed 6.4GT/s
Memory Bandwidth 224GB/s	Memory Bandwidth 819.2GB/s
ECC No	ECC No

Power & Thermals

TDP 115W

TDP Shared

Video Output

Max Resolution 7680x4320	Max Resolution 7680x4320
Refresh Rate Calculator 7680x4320 Resolution8K UHD Refresh Rate 60Hz	Refresh Rate Calculator 7680x4320 Resolution8K UHD Refresh Rate 60Hz
Multi-Monitor 3	Multi-Monitor 8
Adaptive Sync G-Sync FreeSync	Adaptive Sync -
DSC Supported	DSC Supported
HDCP HDCP 2.3	HDCP -

Ports

3x DisplayPort 1.4 1x HDMI 2.1

-

API Support

Shader Model 6.6	Shader Model -
DirectX DirectX 12 Direct3D 12_2	-
OpenGL 4.6 OpenCL 3 Vulkan 1.2	-
CUDA 8.6 PureVideo HD VP11 VDPAU Feature Set K	-

Encoder

Encoder NVENC 7	Encoder 4x Apple Media Engine 3
Codec AVC (H.264) HEVC (H.265) -	Codec AVC (H.264) HEVC (H.265) ProRes

Decoder

Decoder NVDEC 5	Decoder 2x Apple Media Engine 3
Codec MPEG-1 MPEG-2 MPEG-4 VC-1 VP8 VP9 AVC (H.264) HEVC (H.265) AV1 -	Codec - - - - - - AVC (H.264) HEVC (H.265) AV1 ProRes

Card

Form Factor PCIe Card	Form Factor iGPU
PCIe PCIe 4.0 x8 1.9-Slots	PCIe -
Height 112mm (4.41") Width 242mm (9.53") Depth 38mm (1.5")	-
Cooling Open-Air 2x Fans	Cooling Passive -
Power Connectors 1x 12-Pin	Power Connectors -

Chip

Manufacturer NVIDIA	Manufacturer Apple
Chip Designer NVIDIA	Chip Designer Apple
Architecture Ampere	Architecture Apple Gen 6
Family GeForce 30	Family M Series
Branding	Branding
Codename NV177	Codename G15D
Chip Variant GA107-140-A1	Chip Variant -
Market Segment Desktop	Market Segment Workstation
Release Date Dec 16, 2022	Release Date Mar 5, 2025

Fabrication

Foundry Samsung	Foundry TSMC
Fabrication Node 8N	Fabrication Node N3B
Die Size 200mm²	Die Size 954mm²
Transistor Count 8.7B	Transistor Count 184B
Transistor Density 43.5 MTr/mm²	Transistor Density 193 MTr/mm²

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