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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090
24 GB VRAM450W TDP$1,599 MSRP2022
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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 vs Apple M4 Max — Specs & Performance Compared
Side-by-side comparison of 2 hardware parts: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 vs Apple M4 Max. Release years: 2022, 2024. Specs, synthetic benchmarks, AI inference tok/s, and Amazon availability — click into any column header for the per-SKU benchmark page.
*Price sourced from Amazon.com. Last updated 2026-05-27. Price and availability subject to change.
Specs side-by-side
| Spec | NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 | Apple M4 Max |
|---|---|---|
| vram gb | 24 | — |
| vram type | GDDR6X | — |
| tdp w | 450 | — |
| cuda cores | 16384 | — |
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 | NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 | Apple M4 Max |
|---|---|---|
| 3DMark Time Spy Extreme | 38,450 pts | — |
| 3DMark Time Spy Extreme (Graphics) | 19,000 pts | — |
| 3DMark Time Spy GPU | 35,200 pts | — |
| Blender CPU | — | 475 points |
| Cinebench 2024 Multi-Core | — | 2,044 points |
| Cinebench 2024 Single-Core | — | 187 points |
| Cinebench R23 Multi-Core | — | 27,595 points |
| Cinebench R23 Single-Core | — | 2,209 points |
| Deep Learning Benchmark (ResNet-50) | 128,000 images/sec | — |
| Geekbench 6 Multi-Core | — | 26,675 points |
| Geekbench 6 Multi-Core (avg) | — | 25,724 points |
| Geekbench 6 Single-Core | — | 4,060 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.
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090
- llama3:8b: 440.0 tok/s
- Llama 2 7B: 194.0 tok/s
- Llama 3.1 8B: 165.0 tok/s
Apple M4 Max
- llama3.1:8b: 1000.0 tok/s
- Llama 3 8B: 64.0 tok/s
- Mistral 7B: 55.0 tok/s