Side-by-side, with the numbers that matter.
Two rigs, one table. Higher numbers win in cobalt; TDP and price flip.
Rig A
NVIDIA RTX PRO 4500 Blackwell
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
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 | NVIDIA RTX PRO 4500 Blackwell | Apple MacBook Pro 16-inch, M4 Max (2024) |
|---|---|---|
| AI Tops | 1,687 | — |
| Bandwidth GB S | 896 | — |
| Chip | — | Apple M4 Max |
| CPU Cores Options | — | 14, 16 |
| CPU Efficiency Cores | — | 4 |
| CPU Perf Cores 14core | — | 10 |
| CPU Perf Cores 16core | — | 12 |
| Cuda Cores | 10,496 | — |
| 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 |
| Displayport Count | 4 | — |
| Displayport Version | 2.1 | — |
| ECC | true | — |
| Form factor | 4.4 in H x 10.5 in L, dual slot | — |
| GPU Cores Options | — | 32, 40 |
| Lineup Lower Models | RTX PRO 4000, RTX PRO 2000 | — |
| Memory Bandwidth GB S 14core | — | 410 |
| Memory Bandwidth GB S 16core | — | 546 |
| Memory BUS Bits | 256 | — |
| MSRP (USD)↓ better | — | 3,499 |
| Neural Engine Cores | — | 16 |
| Nvdec Count | 2 | — |
| Nvdec GEN | 6 | — |
| Nvenc Count | 2 | — |
| Nvenc GEN | 9 | — |
| Pcie GEN | 5 | — |
| RT Cores | 82 | — |
| RT Cores GEN | 4 | — |
| RTX PRO 2000 MAX Power W | 70 | — |
| RTX PRO 4000 MAX Power W | 145 | — |
| Slot Width | 2 | — |
| 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 |
| TDP (W)↓ better | 200 | — |
| Tensor Cores | 328 | — |
| Tensor Cores GEN | 5 | — |
| Unified Memory GB Options | — | 36, 48, 64, 128 |
| VRAM (GB) | 32 | — |
| Vram Type | GDDR7 ECC | — |