Apple M3 Ultra vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 — Specs & Performance Compared

Side-by-side comparison of 2 hardware parts: Apple M3 Ultra vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090. All released in 2025. Specs, synthetic benchmarks, AI inference tok/s, and Amazon availability — click into any column header for the per-SKU benchmark page.

Apple · M3

Apple M3 Ultra

2025

Full Apple M3 Ultra benchmarks →

NVIDIA · Blackwell

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090

32 GB VRAM575W TDP$1,999 MSRP2025

Full NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 benchmarks →

*Price sourced from Amazon.com. Price and availability subject to change.

Where to buy

Current in-stock pricing for each part on Amazon.

MSI GeForce RTX 5090 32G SUPRIM SOC Graphics Card VD8997

Amazon$6,850

Specs side-by-side

Spec	Apple M3 Ultra	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090
vram gb	—	32
vram type	—	GDDR7
tdp w	—	575
cuda cores	—	21760

Synthetic benchmarks

Higher is better. Per-row scores come from public benchmark databases (PassMark, TechPowerUp, Geekbench, Cinebench). Empty cells mean we don't yet have that benchmark on file for the SKU.

Benchmark	Apple M3 Ultra	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090
3DMark Port Royal	—	45,808 points
3DMark Speed Way	—	16,532 points
3DMark Steel Nomad	—	11,906 points
3DMark Steel Nomad (4K)	—	14,133 points
3DMark Time Spy	—	46,229 points
Cinebench 2024 multi	3,000 points	—
Cinebench 2024 Multi-Core	3,000 points	—
Cinebench R23 multi	46,243 points	—
Cinebench R23 single	2,011 points	—
Geekbench 6 Metal (GPU)	259,668 points	—
Geekbench 6 multi	28,160 points	—
Geekbench 6 Multi-Core	28,417 points	—

AI inference (tokens/sec)

Top community-reported tokens-per-second results for popular LLMs. See the per-SKU benchmark page for the full set including quantization, prompt length, and source citations.