Nvidia GeForce RTX 5060 Laptop vs Apple M5 Pro GPU (16-core)

Compared 2 processors: Nvidia GeForce RTX 5060 Laptop, vs Apple M5 Pro GPU (16-core). Below are specs, tests, pros and cons for each device

Review

Key Specs Nvidia GeForce RTX 5060 Laptop and Apple M5 Pro GPU (16-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

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 M5 Pro GPU (16-core)
8594
Solar Bayn/a39437
GeekBench v6
GB6 Compute Score
Nvidia GeForce RTX 5060 Laptop
108121
Apple M5 Pro GPU (16-core)
75207
Background Blur171 frames/s153.3 frames/s
Face Detection112.1 frames/s101 frames/s
Horizon Detection3.82 Gpix/sec2.82 Gpix/sec
Edge Detection5.06 Gpix/sec4.09 Gpix/sec
Gaussian Blur5.45 Gpix/sec3.69 Gpix/sec
Feature Matching1.24 Gpix/sec0.84 Gpix/sec
Stereo Matching515.3 Gpix/sec212.6 Gpix/sec
Particle Physics16147.9 fps9757.6 fps
APIOpenCLOpenCL
PassMark
PassMark Graphics
Nvidia GeForce RTX 5060 Laptop
19708
Apple M5 Pro GPU (16-core)
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 M5 Pro GPU (16-core)
18459
GB6 ML Half Precision
Nvidia GeForce RTX 5060 Laptop
35323
Apple M5 Pro GPU (16-core)
32720
GB6 ML Quantized
Nvidia GeForce RTX 5060 Laptop
14707
Apple M5 Pro GPU (16-core)
31852
Image Classification (SP)75258260
Image Segmentation (HP)2362325244
Horizon Detection1997333177
Face Detection (HP)4116451773
Pose Estimation (Q)77589190718
Text Classification (SP)28802913
Machine Translation (HP)58118985
Object Detection (SP)99667777
Depth Estimation (Q)3720663837
Style Transfer (SP)136961128419
FrameworkONNXCore ML
BackendDirectMLGPU

Tech Specs

Specs & test comparison

General Info

Manufacturer Nvidia Apple
Build Discrete Integrated
Announced April, 14, 2025 March, 3, 2026
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 920-1430 MHz n/a
Boost GPU Frequency 1455-2497 MHz 1620 MHz
Shader Units 3328 2048
TMUs 104 128
ROPs 48 64
Execution Units 26 256
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 104 Gpix/sec
Texture Fill Rate 151-260 GTex/s 207 GTex/s
FLOPS 9.7-16.6 TFLOPS 6.6 TFLOPS

Process

Interface PCIe 5.0 x8 Custom
TGP 45-125 W n/a
Process TSMC TSMC
Process tech. 4 nm 3 nm
Max temperature n/a 100 °C
Transistor Size 181 mm² n/a
Transistor count 21.9 billion 28 billion
Transistor density 120.99 MTr/mm² n/a

Memory

Interface GDDR7 System Shared
Memory Frequency 1750 MHz 9600 MHz
Bus 128 bit 256 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 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

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