Nvidia GeForce RTX 5060 Laptop vs Apple A18 Pro GPU

Compared 2 processors: Nvidia GeForce RTX 5060 Laptop, vs Apple A18 Pro GPU. Below are specs, tests, pros and cons for each device

Review

Key Specs Nvidia GeForce RTX 5060 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

Games

FPS Table
Game title
1080p (High)
1080p (Ultra)
1440p (Ultra)
4K (Ultra)
Forza Horizon 5
134
87
79
56
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
The Witcher 3
154
130
95
48
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
Counter-Strike 2
225
174
124
69
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
Far Cry 6
115
107
84
49
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
Hogwarts Legacy
90
72
55
29
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
COD Modern Warfare 3
108
101
72
48
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
Ghost of Tsushima
82
67
49
29
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
Cyberpunk 2077
94
86
51
26
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
Shadow of the Tomb Raider
149
136
100
53
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
Avg FPS
1080p High128n/a
1080p Ultra107n/a
1440p Ultra79n/a
4K Ultra45n/a
DeviationMediumn/a

Benchmarks

CPU performance comparison across tasks
3DMark
Steel Nomad Lite Score
Nvidia GeForce RTX 5060 Laptop
n/a
Apple A18 Pro GPU
1795
Solar Bayn/a7273
GeekBench v6
GB6 Compute Score
Nvidia GeForce RTX 5060 Laptop
108121
Apple A18 Pro GPU
31229
Background Blur171 frames/sn/a
Face Detection112.1 frames/sn/a
Horizon Detection3.82 Gpix/secn/a
Edge Detection5.06 Gpix/secn/a
Gaussian Blur5.45 Gpix/secn/a
Feature Matching1.24 Gpix/secn/a
Stereo Matching515.3 Gpix/secn/a
Particle Physics16147.9 fpsn/a
APIOpenCLn/a
PassMark
PassMark Graphics
Nvidia GeForce RTX 5060 Laptop
19708
Apple A18 Pro GPU
n/a
G2D Mark779n/a
DirectX 11185 fpsn/a
DirectX 1272 fpsn/a
GPU Compute8422 Ops/sn/a
Geekbench 6 ML
GB6 ML Single Precision
Nvidia GeForce RTX 5060 Laptop
18679
Apple A18 Pro GPU
6982
GB6 ML Half Precision
Nvidia GeForce RTX 5060 Laptop
35323
Apple A18 Pro GPU
8282
GB6 ML Quantized
Nvidia GeForce RTX 5060 Laptop
14707
Apple A18 Pro GPU
7200
Image Classification (SP)75253264
Image Segmentation (HP)236234550
Horizon Detection199736705
Face Detection (HP)4116411770
Pose Estimation (Q)7758915548
Text Classification (SP)28803678
Machine Translation (HP)58115678
Object Detection (SP)99663360
Depth Estimation (Q)3720613468
Style Transfer (SP)13696131541
FrameworkONNXCore ML
BackendDirectMLGPU

Tech Specs

Specs & test comparison

General Info

Manufacturer Nvidia Apple
Build Discrete Integrated
Announced April, 14, 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 920-1430 MHz n/a
Boost GPU Frequency 1455-2497 MHz 1490 MHz
Shader Units 3328 768
TMUs 104 40
ROPs 48 n/a
Execution Units 26 128
Ray Tracing Cores 26 n/a
Tensor Cores 104 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 70-120 Gpix/sec n/a
Texture Fill Rate 151-260 GTex/s 60 GTex/s
FLOPS 9.7-16.6 TFLOPS 2.3 TFLOPS

Process

Interface PCIe 5.0 x8 Custom
TGP 45-125 W n/a
Process TSMC TSMC
Process tech. 4 nm 3 nm
Transistor Size 181 mm² n/a
Transistor count 21.9 billion n/a
Transistor density 120.99 MTr/mm² n/a

Memory

Interface GDDR7 System Shared
Memory Frequency 1750 MHz 7500 MHz
Bus 128 bit 128 bit
ECC support No No
Effective Memory Speed 28000 MB/s n/a
Memory Size 8 GB n/a
Max Throughput
Nvidia GeForce RTX 5060 Laptop
448 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 5060 Laptop the clear winner in this comparison.

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