Second, that the M1 Ultra is more powerful than the Nvidia RTX 3090. First, the M1 Ultra is massively more power-efficient than Nvidia’s card. M1 Ultra GPU vs Nvidia RTX 3090īoth chart and quote appear to show two things. Apple backed the chart with a very carefully-worded quote:įor the most graphics-intensive needs, like 3D rendering and complex image processing, M1 Ultra has a 64-core GPU - 8x the size of M1 - delivering faster performance than even the highest-end PC GPU available while using 200 fewer watts of power. The M1 Ultra’s specs are impressive indeed, and Apple illustrated this with a chart (above) comparing the GPU performance of the M1 Ultra against the Nvidia RTX 3090 – the most powerful PC GPU at the time. This is available in the new Mac Studio, and combines two M1 Max chips in one.

When Apple compared the M1 Ultra GPU performance to what was then Nvidia’s most powerful graphics card, the company’s chart and quote were technically true, but rather misleading, says Macworld.Īpple gave the impression that the M1 Ultra outperformed the Nvidia RTX 3090, but this was not the case – and will be even less so now that Nvidia has launched the 3090 Ti … BackgroundĪpple this month unveiled its most powerful Apple Silicon chip to date, the M1 Ultra.

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