Nvidia GeForce RTX 5050 Laptop vs Apple A18 Pro GPU

Compared 2 processors: Nvidia GeForce RTX 5050 Laptop, vs Apple A18 Pro GPU. Below are specs, tests, pros and cons for each device

Review

Key Specs Nvidia GeForce RTX 5050 Laptop and Apple A18 Pro GPU
Games
Performance in DirectX, OpenCL, Vulkan
AI/ML
AI workload testing
Professional Apps
3D modeling, video editing, rendering
Energy Efficiency
Power usage in various scenarios
NanoReview Score
Overall score by NanoReview

Tests & specs

Specs & test comparison

Benchmarks

CPU performance comparison across tasks
3DMark
Steel Nomad Lite Score
Nvidia GeForce RTX 5050 Laptop
n/a
Apple A18 Pro GPU
1795
Solar Bayn/a7273
GeekBench v6
GB6 Compute Score
Nvidia GeForce RTX 5050 Laptop
n/a
Apple A18 Pro GPU
31229
Geekbench 6 ML
GB6 ML Single Precision
Nvidia GeForce RTX 5050 Laptop
n/a
Apple A18 Pro GPU
6982
GB6 ML Half Precision
Nvidia GeForce RTX 5050 Laptop
n/a
Apple A18 Pro GPU
8282
GB6 ML Quantized
Nvidia GeForce RTX 5050 Laptop
n/a
Apple A18 Pro GPU
7200
Image Classification (SP)n/a3264
Image Segmentation (HP)n/a4550
Horizon Detectionn/a6705
Face Detection (HP)n/a11770
Pose Estimation (Q)n/a15548
Text Classification (SP)n/a3678
Machine Translation (HP)n/a5678
Object Detection (SP)n/a3360
Depth Estimation (Q)n/a13468
Style Transfer (SP)n/a31541
Frameworkn/aCore ML
Backendn/aGPU

Blender

Real-world 3D modeling test
Blender GPU
Nvidia GeForce RTX 5050 Laptop
2993.16
Apple A18 Pro GPU
n/a

Tech Specs

Specs & test comparison

General Info

Manufacturer Nvidia Apple
Build Discrete Integrated
Announced June, 24, 2025 September, 9, 2024
Form Factor Laptop use Laptop use
Use case Gaming Universal
Segment Mid-range Mid-range
Architecture Blackwell 2.0 Apple M GPU
Codename GB207 Custom

GPU

GPU Frequency 2235-2520 MHz n/a
Boost GPU Frequency 1500-2662 MHz 1490 MHz
Shader Units 2560 768
TMUs 80 40
ROPs 32 n/a
Execution Units 20 128
Ray Tracing Cores 20 n/a
Tensor Cores 80 n/a
L1 cache 128 KB/core n/a
L2 cache 32000 KB/core n/a
Instructions per Clock 2 IPC 2 IPC

Performance

Pixel Fill Rate 48-85 Gpix/sec n/a
Texture Fill Rate 120-213 GTex/s 60 GTex/s
FLOPS 7.7-13.6 TFLOPS 2.3 TFLOPS

Process

Interface IGP Custom
TGP 35-100 W n/a
Process TSMC TSMC
Process tech. 5 nm 3 nm

Memory

Interface GDDR7 System Shared
Memory Frequency 1750 MHz 7500 MHz
Bus 128 bit 128 bit
ECC support No No
Effective Memory Speed 24000 MB/s n/a
Memory Size 8 GB n/a
Max Throughput
Nvidia GeForce RTX 5050 Laptop
384 GB/s
Apple A18 Pro GPU
n/a

API

DirectX 12.2 n/a
Vulkan 1.4 n/a
OpenGL 4.6 n/a
CUDA 12.0 n/a
DisplayPort 2.1b n/a
Ray Tracing Yes Yes
DLSS DLSS 4 No

Results

After analyzing the data, we consider Nvidia GeForce RTX 5050 Laptop the clear winner in this comparison.

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