Nvidia GeForce RTX 5050 vs Apple M5 Pro GPU (16-core)

Compared 2 processors: Nvidia GeForce RTX 5050, vs Apple M5 Pro GPU (16-core). Below are specs, tests, pros and cons for each device

Review

Key Specs Nvidia GeForce RTX 5050 and Apple M5 Pro GPU (16-core)
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

Games

FPS Table
Game title
1080p (High)
1080p (Ultra)
1440p (Ultra)
4K (Ultra)
Forza Horizon 5
122
74
65
45
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
The Witcher 3
139
109
81
42
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
Counter-Strike 2
198
150
107
56
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
Far Cry 6
103
95
72
39
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
Hogwarts Legacy
74
64
44
25
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
COD Modern Warfare 3
90
84
61
38
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
Ghost of Tsushima
72
59
41
24
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
Cyberpunk 2077
80
72
45
18
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
Shadow of the Tomb Raider
120
113
79
42
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
Avg FPS
1080p High111n/a
1080p Ultra91n/a
1440p Ultra66n/a
4K Ultra37n/a
DeviationHighn/a

Benchmarks

CPU performance comparison across tasks
3DMark
Steel Nomad Lite Score
Nvidia GeForce RTX 5050
10047
Apple M5 Pro GPU (16-core)
8594
Time Spy10201n/a
Solar Bay4596639437
Port Royal6128n/a
Fire Strike29129n/a
GeekBench v6
GB6 Compute Score
Nvidia GeForce RTX 5050
n/a
Apple M5 Pro GPU (16-core)
75207
Background Blurn/a153.3 frames/s
Face Detectionn/a101 frames/s
Horizon Detectionn/a2.82 Gpix/sec
Edge Detectionn/a4.09 Gpix/sec
Gaussian Blurn/a3.69 Gpix/sec
Feature Matchingn/a0.84 Gpix/sec
Stereo Matchingn/a212.6 Gpix/sec
Particle Physicsn/a9757.6 fps
APIn/aOpenCL
PassMark
PassMark Graphics
Nvidia GeForce RTX 5050
17775
Apple M5 Pro GPU (16-core)
n/a
G2D Mark1113n/a
DirectX 11155 fpsn/a
DirectX 1271 fpsn/a
GPU Compute9063 Ops/sn/a
Geekbench 6 ML
GB6 ML Single Precision
Nvidia GeForce RTX 5050
n/a
Apple M5 Pro GPU (16-core)
18459
GB6 ML Half Precision
Nvidia GeForce RTX 5050
n/a
Apple M5 Pro GPU (16-core)
32720
GB6 ML Quantized
Nvidia GeForce RTX 5050
n/a
Apple M5 Pro GPU (16-core)
31852
Image Classification (SP)n/a8260
Image Segmentation (HP)n/a25244
Horizon Detectionn/a33177
Face Detection (HP)n/a51773
Pose Estimation (Q)n/a190718
Text Classification (SP)n/a2913
Machine Translation (HP)n/a8985
Object Detection (SP)n/a7777
Depth Estimation (Q)n/a63837
Style Transfer (SP)n/a128419
Frameworkn/aCore ML
Backendn/aGPU

Tech Specs

Specs & test comparison

General Info

Manufacturer Nvidia Apple
Build Discrete Integrated
Announced June, 24, 2025 March, 3, 2026
Form Factor PC use Laptop use
Use case Gaming Professional
Segment Mid-range Mid-range
Architecture Blackwell 2.0 Apple M GPU
Codename GB207-300 Custom

GPU

GPU Frequency 2317 MHz n/a
Boost GPU Frequency 2572 MHz 1620 MHz
Shader Units 2560 2048
TMUs 80 128
ROPs 32 64
Execution Units 20 256
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 82 Gpix/sec 104 Gpix/sec
Texture Fill Rate 206 GTex/s 207 GTex/s
FLOPS 13.2 TFLOPS 6.6 TFLOPS

Process

Interface PCIe 5.0 x8 Custom
TGP 130 W n/a
Process TSMC TSMC
Process tech. 5 nm 3 nm
Max temperature 87 °C 100 °C
Transistor Size 149 mm² n/a
Transistor count 16.9 billion 28 billion
Transistor density 113.42 MTr/mm² n/a

Memory

Interface GDDR6 System Shared
Memory Frequency 1750 MHz 9600 MHz
Bus 128 bit 256 bit
ECC support No No
Effective Memory Speed 20000 MB/s n/a
Memory Size 8 GB n/a
Max Throughput
Nvidia GeForce RTX 5050
320 GB/s
Apple M5 Pro GPU (16-core)
307 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

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