Side-by-side, with the numbers that matter.
Two rigs, one table. Higher numbers win in cobalt; TDP and price flip.
Rig A
Groq Language Processing Unit
Groq · accelerator
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
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
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⇄ swap sides| Spec | Groq Language Processing Unit | Apple MacBook Pro 16-inch, M4 Max (2024) |
|---|---|---|
| Chip | — | Apple M4 Max |
| Chip TO Chip Links | 11 | — |
| CPU Cores Options | — | 14, 16 |
| CPU Efficiency Cores | — | 4 |
| 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 |
| DOJ Probe Reported | 2026-09-10 | — |
| Form factor | PCIe Gen4 x16 | — |
| GPU Cores Options | — | 32, 40 |
| Groq3 LPX Full Production | 2026-08-24 | — |
| Groqcard Sales Ended Reported | 2024-04-05 | — |
| Memory Bandwidth GB S 14core | — | 410 |
| Memory Bandwidth GB S 16core | — | 546 |
| MSRP (USD)↓ better | — | 3,499 |
| Neural Engine Cores | — | 16 |
| Nvidia Consideration AT Closing USD Billion | 13 | — |
| Nvidia Consideration Deferred USD Billion | 4 | — |
| Nvidia License Agreement | 2025-12-24 | — |
| ON Chip Sram MB | 230 | — |
| ON DIE Memory Bandwidth TB S | 80 | — |
| Peak Fp16 Tflops | 188 | — |
| Peak Int8 Tops | 750 | — |
| Process Node | 14nm | — |
| SSD TB Options | — | 1, 2, 4, 8 |
| Status Checked | 2026-09-24 | — |
| 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 |
| Unified Memory GB Options | — | 36, 48, 64, 128 |