Side-by-side, with the numbers that matter.
Two rigs, one table. Higher numbers win in cobalt; TDP and price flip.
Rig A
Apple Mac Pro (M2 Ultra, 2023)
Apple · mac
Change
- 1X Neo
- Agility Robotics Digit
- Alibaba Qwen2.5-72B-Instruct (Q4 quant)
- AMD Instinct MI300X
- AMD Instinct MI325X
- AMD Instinct MI355X
- Anthropic Claude Opus 4.7
- Apple Mac Pro (M2 Ultra, 2023)
- Apple Mac Studio (M3 Ultra)
- Apple MacBook Pro 16-inch, M4 Max (2024)
- Apptronik Apollo
- Aurora
- AWS Trainium2
- Boston Dynamics Atlas
- Boston Dynamics Spot
- Cerebras Wafer-Scale Engine 3
- El Capitan
- Figure 02
- Frontier (OLCF-5)
- Google Cloud TPU v5p
- Groq Language Processing Unit
- Intel Gaudi 3 HL-325L
- MSI GeForce RTX 5090 Suprim Liquid
- NVIDIA B100
- NVIDIA B200
- NVIDIA DGX B200
- NVIDIA DGX H200
- NVIDIA DGX Spark
- NVIDIA Eos DGX SuperPOD
- NVIDIA GB200
- NVIDIA GB200 NVL72
- NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 Founders Edition
- NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 Ti
- NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 Founders Edition
- NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 Founders Edition
- NVIDIA GH200 Grace Hopper
- NVIDIA H100
- NVIDIA H200
- NVIDIA HGX B200
- NVIDIA Jetson AGX Thor
- NVIDIA RTX PRO 4500 Blackwell
- NVIDIA RTX PRO 5000 Blackwell
- NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell
- OpenAI GPT-5
- SambaNova SN40L Reconfigurable Dataflow Unit
- Sanctuary AI Phoenix
- Tesla Optimus
- The Stargate Project
- Unitree B2
- Unitree G1
- Unitree H1
Rig B
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 Ti
NVIDIA · gpu
Change
- 1X Neo
- Agility Robotics Digit
- Alibaba Qwen2.5-72B-Instruct (Q4 quant)
- AMD Instinct MI300X
- AMD Instinct MI325X
- AMD Instinct MI355X
- Anthropic Claude Opus 4.7
- Apple Mac Pro (M2 Ultra, 2023)
- Apple Mac Studio (M3 Ultra)
- Apple MacBook Pro 16-inch, M4 Max (2024)
- Apptronik Apollo
- Aurora
- AWS Trainium2
- Boston Dynamics Atlas
- Boston Dynamics Spot
- Cerebras Wafer-Scale Engine 3
- El Capitan
- Figure 02
- Frontier (OLCF-5)
- Google Cloud TPU v5p
- Groq Language Processing Unit
- Intel Gaudi 3 HL-325L
- MSI GeForce RTX 5090 Suprim Liquid
- NVIDIA B100
- NVIDIA B200
- NVIDIA DGX B200
- NVIDIA DGX H200
- NVIDIA DGX Spark
- NVIDIA Eos DGX SuperPOD
- NVIDIA GB200
- NVIDIA GB200 NVL72
- NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 Founders Edition
- NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 Ti
- NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 Founders Edition
- NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 Founders Edition
- NVIDIA GH200 Grace Hopper
- NVIDIA H100
- NVIDIA H200
- NVIDIA HGX B200
- NVIDIA Jetson AGX Thor
- NVIDIA RTX PRO 4500 Blackwell
- NVIDIA RTX PRO 5000 Blackwell
- NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell
- OpenAI GPT-5
- SambaNova SN40L Reconfigurable Dataflow Unit
- Sanctuary AI Phoenix
- Tesla Optimus
- The Stargate Project
- Unitree B2
- Unitree G1
- Unitree H1
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⇄ swap sidesApple Mac Pro (M2 Ultra, 2023)NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 Ti
MSRP (USD)
6,999
749
| Spec | Apple Mac Pro (M2 Ultra, 2023) | NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 Ti |
|---|---|---|
| MSRP (USD)↓ better | 6,999 | 749 |
| AI Tops | — | 1,406 |
| Bandwidth GB S | — | 896 |
| Base Clock GHZ | — | 2.3 |
| Boost Clock GHZ | — | 2.45 |
| Chip | Apple M2 Ultra | — |
| CPU Cores | 24 | — |
| CPU Efficiency Cores | 8 | — |
| CPU Performance Cores | 16 | — |
| Cuda Cores | — | 8,960 |
| Discontinued ON | 2026-03-26 | — |
| Form factor | tower / rack | — |
| Founders Edition | — | none (partner cards only) |
| Founders Edition Models Rtx50 Launch | — | RTX 5090, RTX 5080, RTX 5070 |
| GPU Cores MAX | 76 | — |
| GPU Cores MIN | 60 | — |
| Memory bandwidth (GB/s) | 800 | — |
| Memory BUS Bits | — | 256 |
| Memory Speed Gbps | — | 28 |
| Neural Engine Cores | 32 | — |
| Pcie Expansion | true | — |
| Pcie GEN | — | 5 |
| Required PSU Watts | — | 750 |
| RT Core Tflops | — | 133 |
| RT Cores GEN | — | 4 |
| SSD TB Options | 1, 2, 4, 8 | — |
| Status | discontinued | — |
| Status Checked | — | 2026-09-24 |
| Street Price Date | — | 2026-09-01 |
| Street Price Premium PCT US | — | 40 |
| Street Price USD US Typical | — | 1,050 |
| TDP (W)↓ better | — | 300 |
| Tensor Cores GEN | — | 5 |
| Unified Memory GB Options | 64, 128, 192 | — |
| VRAM (GB) | — | 16 |
| Vram Type | — | GDDR7 |