Nvidia GeForce RTX 5050 Laptop vs Apple M5 GPU (10-Core)

Compared 2 processors: Nvidia GeForce RTX 5050 Laptop, vs Apple M5 GPU (10-Core). Below are specs, tests, pros and cons for each device

Review

Key Specs Nvidia GeForce RTX 5050 Laptop and Apple M5 GPU (10-Core)
Games
Performance in DirectX, OpenCL, Vulkan
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
GeekBench v6
GB6 Compute Score
Nvidia GeForce RTX 5050 Laptop
n/a
Apple M5 GPU (10-Core)
75777
Geekbench 6 ML
GB6 ML Single Precision
Nvidia GeForce RTX 5050 Laptop
n/a
Apple M5 GPU (10-Core)
13289
GB6 ML Half Precision
Nvidia GeForce RTX 5050 Laptop
n/a
Apple M5 GPU (10-Core)
24800
GB6 ML Quantized
Nvidia GeForce RTX 5050 Laptop
n/a
Apple M5 GPU (10-Core)
23572
Image Classification (SP)n/a6348
Image Segmentation (HP)n/a16813
Horizon Detectionn/a30322
Face Detection (HP)n/a34387
Pose Estimation (Q)n/a111591
Text Classification (SP)n/a2319
Machine Translation (HP)n/a5555
Object Detection (SP)n/a6450
Depth Estimation (Q)n/a53195
Style Transfer (SP)n/a82314
Frameworkn/aCore ML
Backendn/aGPU

Blender

Real-world 3D modeling test
Blender GPU
Nvidia GeForce RTX 5050 Laptop
2993.16
Apple M5 GPU (10-Core)
n/a

Tech Specs

Specs & test comparison

General Info

Manufacturer Nvidia Apple
Build Discrete Integrated
Announced June, 24, 2025 October, 15, 2025
Form Factor Laptop use Laptop use
Use case Gaming Professional
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 2240 MHz
Shader Units 2560 1280
TMUs 80 80
ROPs 32 40
Execution Units 20 160
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 90 Gpix/sec
Texture Fill Rate 120-213 GTex/s 179 GTex/s
FLOPS 7.7-13.6 TFLOPS 5.7 TFLOPS

Process

Interface IGP Custom
TGP 35-100 W n/a
Process TSMC TSMC
Process tech. 5 nm 3 nm
Max temperature n/a 100 °C
Transistor count n/a 28 billion

Memory

Interface GDDR7 System Shared
Memory Frequency 1750 MHz n/a
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 M5 GPU (10-Core)
153 GB/s

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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