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Apple M3 Ultra
2025
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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.
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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090
32 GB VRAM575W TDP$1,999 MSRP2025
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*Price sourced from Amazon.com. Price and availability subject to change.
Where to buy
Current in-stock pricing for each part on Amazon.
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.
Apple M3 Ultra
- llama3.1:8b: 128.2 tok/s
- deepseekr1:32b: 100.0 tok/s
- llama:7b: 92.1 tok/s
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090
- Qwen2.5-Coder-7B-Instruct: 5841.0 tok/s
- Llama 3.1 8B FP8: 420.0 tok/s
- Llama 2 7B: 263.6 tok/s
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