Nvidia GeForce RTX 5070 vs Apple M5 GPU (10-Core)

Compared 2 processors: Nvidia GeForce RTX 5070, vs Apple M5 GPU (10-Core). Below are specs, tests, pros and cons for each device

Review

Key Specs Nvidia GeForce RTX 5070 and Apple M5 GPU (10-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
192
140
127
98
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
The Witcher 3
212
180
134
70
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
Counter-Strike 2
284
215
157
82
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
Far Cry 6
161
148
127
82
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
Hogwarts Legacy
137
115
92
50
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
COD Modern Warfare 3
181
172
133
88
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
Ghost of Tsushima
123
107
88
56
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
Cyberpunk 2077
161
141
99
44
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
Shadow of the Tomb Raider
250
241
181
101
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
Avg FPS
1080p High189n/a
1080p Ultra162n/a
1440p Ultra126n/a
4K Ultra75n/a
DeviationLown/a

Benchmarks

CPU performance comparison across tasks
3DMark
Steel Nomad Lite Score
Nvidia GeForce RTX 5070
22974
Apple M5 GPU (10-Core)
n/a
Time Spy22613n/a
Solar Bay103768n/a
Port Royal14312n/a
Fire Strike57793n/a
Night Raid172986n/a
GeekBench v6
GB6 Compute Score
Nvidia GeForce RTX 5070
190967
Apple M5 GPU (10-Core)
75777
Background Blur254.4 frames/sn/a
Face Detection180.6 frames/sn/a
Horizon Detection7.91 Gpix/secn/a
Edge Detection10.2 Gpix/secn/a
Gaussian Blur10.7 Gpix/secn/a
Feature Matching1.84 Gpix/secn/a
Stereo Matching975.7 Gpix/secn/a
Particle Physics27816.5 fpsn/a
APIOpenCLn/a
PassMark
PassMark Graphics
Nvidia GeForce RTX 5070
29057
Apple M5 GPU (10-Core)
n/a
G2D Mark1297n/a
DirectX 11277 fpsn/a
DirectX 12108 fpsn/a
GPU Compute15779 Ops/sn/a
Geekbench 6 ML
GB6 ML Single Precision
Nvidia GeForce RTX 5070
30221
Apple M5 GPU (10-Core)
13289
GB6 ML Half Precision
Nvidia GeForce RTX 5070
53037
Apple M5 GPU (10-Core)
24800
GB6 ML Quantized
Nvidia GeForce RTX 5070
23474
Apple M5 GPU (10-Core)
23572
Image Classification (SP)122706348
Image Segmentation (HP)3023716813
Horizon Detection3558530322
Face Detection (HP)6266234387
Pose Estimation (Q)145190111591
Text Classification (SP)41982319
Machine Translation (HP)62335555
Object Detection (SP)167096450
Depth Estimation (Q)5830053195
Style Transfer (SP)24659882314
FrameworkONNXCore ML
BackendDirectMLGPU

Blender

Real-world 3D modeling test
Blender GPU
Nvidia GeForce RTX 5070
6148.6
Apple M5 GPU (10-Core)
n/a

Tech Specs

Specs & test comparison

General Info

Manufacturer Nvidia Apple
Build Discrete Integrated
Announced January, 7, 2025 October, 15, 2025
Form Factor PC use Laptop use
Use case Gaming Professional
Segment Mid-range Mid-range
Architecture Blackwell 2.0 Apple M GPU
Codename GB205-300 Custom

GPU

GPU Frequency 2325 MHz n/a
Boost GPU Frequency 2512 MHz 2240 MHz
Shader Units 6144 1280
TMUs 192 80
ROPs 80 40
Execution Units 48 160
Ray Tracing Cores 48 n/a
Tensor Cores 192 n/a
L1 cache 128 KB/core n/a
L2 cache 48000 KB/core n/a
Instructions per Clock 2 IPC 2 IPC

Performance

Pixel Fill Rate 201 Gpix/sec 90 Gpix/sec
Texture Fill Rate 482 GTex/s 179 GTex/s
FLOPS 30.9 TFLOPS 5.7 TFLOPS

Process

Interface PCIe 5.0 x16 Custom
TGP 250 W n/a
Process TSMC TSMC
Process tech. 4 nm 3 nm
Max temperature n/a 100 °C
Transistor Size 263 mm² n/a
Transistor count 31.1 billion 28 billion
Transistor density 118.25 MTr/mm² n/a

Memory

Interface GDDR7 System Shared
Memory Frequency 1750 MHz n/a
Bus 192 bit 128 bit
ECC support No No
Effective Memory Speed 28000 MB/s n/a
Memory Size 12 GB n/a
Max Throughput
Nvidia GeForce RTX 5070
672 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 5070 the clear winner in this comparison.

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