Side-by-side, with the numbers that matter.
Two rigs, one table. Higher numbers win in cobalt; TDP and price flip.
Rig A
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 Founders Edition
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
Rig B
Apple Mac Studio (M3 Ultra)
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
3 of 47 fields comparable
⇄ swap sidesNVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 Founders EditionApple Mac Studio (M3 Ultra)
Bandwidth GB S
1,792
819
MSRP (USD)
1,999
9,499
TDP (W)
575
270
| Spec | NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 Founders Edition | Apple Mac Studio (M3 Ultra) |
|---|---|---|
| Bandwidth GB S | 1,792 | 819 |
| MSRP (USD)↓ better | 1,999 | 9,499 |
| TDP (W)↓ better | 575 | 270 |
| AI Tops | 3,352 | — |
| Base Clock GHZ | 2.01 | — |
| Base Price USD | — | 3,999 |
| Boost Clock GHZ | 2.41 | — |
| Comparator 5090 | — | 5,090 |
| CPU Cores 512gb Config | — | 32 |
| Cuda Cores | 21,760 | — |
| Displayport Count | 3 | — |
| Displayport Version | 2.1b | — |
| GPU Cores 512gb Config | — | 80 |
| Hdmi Count | 1 | — |
| Hdmi Version | 2.1b | — |
| Launch Date | — | 2025-03-05 |
| Length MM | 304 | — |
| M Series Version | — | 3 |
| Memory BUS Bits | 512 | — |
| Nvdec Count | 2 | — |
| Nvdec GEN | 6 | — |
| Nvenc Count | 3 | — |
| Nvenc GEN | 9 | — |
| Only 96gb Config From | — | 2026-05-05 |
| Option 512gb Removed | — | 2026-03-05 |
| Pcie GEN | 5 | — |
| Required PSU Watts | 1,000 | — |
| RT Core Tflops | 318 | — |
| RT Cores GEN | 4 | — |
| Slot Width | 2 | — |
| Status | — | discontinued |
| Status Checked | 2026-09-24 | 2026-09-24 |
| Street Price Date | 2026-09-01 | — |
| Street Price Premium PCT US | 145 | — |
| Street Price USD US Typical | 4,900 | — |
| Successor | — | Mac Studio with M5 Max / M5 Ultra (up to 512 GB unified memory) |
| Successor M5 Ultra Base Price USD | — | 5,499 |
| Superseded ON | — | 2026-08-25 |
| Tensor Cores GEN | 5 | — |
| Unified Memory Base GB | — | 96 |
| Unified Memory MAX GB | — | 512 |
| Unified Memory MID GB | — | 256 |
| Upgrade 512gb USD | — | 4,000 |
| Upgrade Chip USD | — | 1,500 |
| VRAM (GB) | 32 | — |
| Vram Type | GDDR7 | — |
| Width MM | 137 | — |