- Nvidia has a commanding lead over competitors in the latest Adobe After Effects benchmarks
- Even lower NVIDIA GPUs outperform Intel and AMD cards
- But to Apple’s credit, the M3 Max steps up considerably in 2D despite its laptop form factor
NVIDIA’s GeForce RTX 40 series GPUs have shown some significant advantages when it comes to processing 3D workflows on comparable Intel and AMD cards, new figures have claimed.
The latest After Effects benchmarks from Puget Systems indicate that Nvidia’s GeForce RTX 4090 delivered up to 20 times the performance of Apple’s MacBook Pro M3 Max in 3D tasks; Reflecting the technical design of the card focuses on GPU-intensive workloads.
The 4090, equipped with 24GB of GDDR6X memory and 16,384 CUDA cores, nearly doubles the performance of its own mid-range RTX 4060 in advanced 3D tests that use Adobe’s advanced acceleration that relies heavily on GPU acceleration.
Nvidia RTX 4090 outperforms its rivals
Comparatively, the RTX 4060, with 8GB of GDDR6 memory and 3,072 CUDA cores, outperforms AMD’s flagship RADEON RX 7900 XTX, which has 24GB of GDDR6 memory and 6,144 stream processors.
Despite its higher memory capacity, the Radeon GPU trails the RTX 4060 by 25% in overall 3D performance.
Intel’s ARC GPUs, such as the ARC B580 with 12GB of VRAM and 3,456 cores, are also not mid-range offerings from Nvidia, trailing the RTX 4060 by about 22%.
Apple’s M3 Max, equipped with 40 GPU cores, performs about 10 times slower than the RTX 4060 in GPU-accelerated 3D tasks.
However, while NVIDIA leads in 3D rendering, Apple’s M3 Max performs well in 2D workflows due to its CPU efficiency. The MacBook Pro excels in projects with an emphasis on 2D layers and effects, where GPU performance plays a secondary role. However, for CPU-dependent tracking tasks, NVIDIA and Apple systems perform similarly.
Nvidia owes its dominance in 3D After Effects workflows to its advanced GPU architecture and software integration. The RTX 4090, for example, comes with technologies like the ADA Lovelace Architecture and Cuda Framework that optimizes 3D GPU performance.
