Side-by-side, with the numbers that matter.
Two rigs, one table. Higher numbers win in cobalt; TDP and price flip.
Rig A
Apple MacBook Pro 16-inch, M4 Max (2024)
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 GB200 NVL72
NVIDIA · workstation
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 sides| Spec | Apple MacBook Pro 16-inch, M4 Max (2024) | NVIDIA GB200 NVL72 |
|---|---|---|
| Blackwell Gpus | — | 72 |
| Chip | Apple M4 Max | — |
| Compute Trays | — | 18 |
| Cooling | — | liquid |
| CPU Cores Options | 14, 16 | — |
| CPU Efficiency Cores | 4 | — |
| CPU Memory Bandwidth TB S | — | 14 |
| CPU Memory Lpddr5x TB | — | 17 |
| CPU Perf Cores 14core | 10 | — |
| CPU Perf Cores 16core | 12 | — |
| Display Brightness Nits HDR Peak | 1,600 | — |
| Display PPI | 254 | — |
| Display Resolution H | 2,234 | — |
| Display Resolution W | 3,456 | — |
| Display Size IN | 16.2 | — |
| Fp16 Bf16 Pflops | — | 360 |
| FP32 TFLOPS | — | 5,760 |
| FP64 TFLOPS | — | 2,880 |
| FP8 FP6 Pflops | — | 720 |
| GPU Cores Options | 32, 40 | — |
| GPU Memory Bandwidth TB S | — | 576 |
| Grace Cpus | — | 36 |
| Int8 Pops | — | 720 |
| Memory Bandwidth GB S 14core | 410 | — |
| Memory Bandwidth GB S 16core | 546 | — |
| MSRP (USD)↓ better | 3,499 | — |
| Neural Engine Cores | 16 | — |
| Nvfp4 Pflops Dense | — | 720 |
| Nvfp4 Pflops Sparse | — | 1,440 |
| Nvlink Generation | — | 5 |
| Nvswitch Trays | — | 9 |
| Rack Power KW Approx | — | 120 |
| SSD TB Options | 1, 2, 4, 8 | — |
| Successor | MacBook Pro with M5 Pro / M5 Max | — |
| Successor 16in M5 MAX Price USD | 3,899 | — |
| Successor 16in M5 PRO Price USD | 2,699 | — |
| Successor M5 MAX Bandwidth GB S | 614 | — |
| Successor M5 MAX Memory MAX GB | 128 | — |
| Superseded ON | 2026-03-03 | — |
| Tf32 Pflops | — | 180 |
| Total ARM Cores | — | 2,592 |
| Total Hbm3e TB | — | 13.4 |
| Total Nvlink Bandwidth TB S | — | 130 |
| Unified Memory GB Options | 36, 48, 64, 128 | — |