Nvidia GeForce RTX 5070 Laptop vs Apple M4 GPU (10-Core)

Compared 2 processors: Nvidia GeForce RTX 5070 Laptop, vs Apple M4 GPU (10-Core). Below are specs, tests, pros and cons for each device

Review

Key Specs Nvidia GeForce RTX 5070 Laptop and Apple M4 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
3DMark
Steel Nomad Lite Score
Nvidia GeForce RTX 5070 Laptop
n/a
Apple M4 GPU (10-Core)
3946
Time Spy12854n/a
Port Royal8539n/a
GeekBench v6
GB6 Compute Score
Nvidia GeForce RTX 5070 Laptop
134209
Apple M4 GPU (10-Core)
37678
Background Blur213.4 frames/s72.2 frames/s
Face Detection130.4 frames/s48.3 frames/s
Horizon Detection4.89 Gpix/sec1.4 Gpix/sec
Edge Detection6.23 Gpix/sec1.94 Gpix/sec
Gaussian Blur7.41 Gpix/sec1.5 Gpix/sec
Feature Matching1.46 Gpix/sec0.53 Gpix/sec
Stereo Matching661.9 Gpix/sec123.3 Gpix/sec
Particle Physics19395.6 fps4938.4 fps
APIOpenCLOpenCL
PassMark
PassMark Graphics
Nvidia GeForce RTX 5070 Laptop
19438
Apple M4 GPU (10-Core)
n/a
G2D Mark991n/a
DirectX 11173 fpsn/a
DirectX 1298 fpsn/a
GPU Compute7598 Ops/sn/a
GFXBench 5
Aztec Ruins (High 4K)
Nvidia GeForce RTX 5070 Laptop
n/a
Apple M4 GPU (10-Core)
63.1 fps
Aztec Ruins (Normal)n/a344.5 fps
Car Chasen/a259.9 fps
Manhattan 3.1.1 (1440p)n/a167.5 fps
T-Rexn/a914.7 fps
ALU 2n/a432.2 fps
Driver Overhead 2n/a648.6 fps
APIn/aMetal
OSn/aOS X

Blender

Real-world 3D modeling test
Blender GPU
Nvidia GeForce RTX 5070 Laptop
4088.29
Apple M4 GPU (10-Core)
n/a

Tech Specs

Specs & test comparison

General Info

Manufacturer Nvidia Apple
Build Discrete Integrated
Announced January, 7, 2025 May, 7, 2024
Form Factor Laptop use Laptop use
Use case Gaming Professional
Segment Mid-range Mid-range
Architecture Blackwell 2.0 Apple M GPU
Codename GB206-300 Custom

GPU

GPU Frequency 890-1410 MHz 500 MHz
Boost GPU Frequency 1410-2520 MHz 1800 MHz
Shader Units 4608 1280
TMUs 144 80
ROPs 48 40
Execution Units 36 160
Ray Tracing Cores 36 n/a
Tensor Cores 144 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 68-121 Gpix/sec 72 Gpix/sec
Texture Fill Rate 203-363 GTex/s 144 GTex/s
FLOPS 13-23.2 TFLOPS 4.6 TFLOPS

Process

Interface PCIe 5.0 x16 Custom
TGP 50-125 W 18 W
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 7500 MHz
Bus 128 bit 128 bit
ECC support No No
Effective Memory Speed 28000 MB/s 15000 MB/s
Memory Size 8 GB n/a
Max Throughput
Nvidia GeForce RTX 5070 Laptop
448 GB/s
Apple M4 GPU (10-Core)
120 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 5070 Laptop the clear winner in this comparison.

Survey

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