M3 Max’s 40-Core GPU Matches The RTX 3080’s Performance, Laptop RTX 4080 Only 7 Percent Faster In New GFXBench Benchmark Comparison

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Apple’s M3 Max is a testament to how far the company has come with its custom silicon, and with the help of TSMC’s 3nm technology, the bar is raised even further, at least for this high-end part. We have been thoroughly impressed that the newest Apple Silicon is slightly faster than the M2 Ultra in Geekbench 6’s multi-core result, and now we have some more GPU comparisons for you. This time, the M3 Max’s 40-core graphics processor takes on NVIDIA’s high-end RTX 3080 and laptop RTX 4080 in GFXBench, and the negligible performance differences between all three will take you off-guard.

The GFXBench Aztex Ruins benchmark was posted by SJV, showing that the M3 Max can achieve a total of 28,517 frames at an average of 443.5FPS at the 1440p resolution. In comparison, the desktop RTX 3080 is barely faster than Apple’s 3nm SoC, posting a total of 28,889 frames at an average of 449.3FPS. There is also another version of the RTX 3080 that achieves a slightly higher score, but the short version is that all of these differences are extremely minute. Even NVIDIA’s laptop RTX 4080 GPU, which is said to be faster than the desktop RTX 3080, achieves a total of 29,759 frames at 462.8FPS.

These results reveal that the M3 Max GPU is 7 percent slower than the laptop RTX 4080, but before readers get too excited about seeing the capabilities of an ARM-based chipset, there is a ton of ‘behind the scenes’ information that we need to relay to you first. Firstly, we believe that GFXBench provides some extremely skewed results, and we say this because previously, the M3’s 10-core was shown to be just 7.4 percent faster than the M2, featuring the same number of GPU cores.

It was later revealed that GFXBench has not been updated in over a year, so it is