Nvidia N1X (40SM) vs Adreno X2-90
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Nvidia N1X (40SM)
GB20B
Adreno X2-90
Adreno X2
We compared two integrated laptop graphics cards: the Nvidia N1X (40SM) with 40 pipelines and 5120 shaders against the 8 months older Adreno X2-90 that utilizes 12 pipelines and 2048 shaders. Here you will find complete details about specs, efficiency, performance tests, and more.
Please note that the tests on the Nvidia N1X (40SM) are done on an engineering sample provided by our insiders. The data will be more accurate after the final version of this GPU is available.
Key differences
Reasons to consider the Nvidia N1X (40SM)
- 3.4x higher maximum theoretical performance (26 vs 7.6 TFLOPS)
- Supports Nvidia DLSS 4 technology
- Has 2.5x more shading units (5120 vs 2048)
- Features 160 tensor cores for effective deep learning and AI workloads
Benchmarks
Graphics cards’ performance in recent benchmarking apps3D Mark
Steel Nomad Lite Score
| Time Spy | - | 3644 |
| Solar Bay | - | 24178 |
| Port Royal | - | 1578 |
| Fire Strike | - | 10109 |
| Wild Life Extreme | - | 10017 |
| Night Raid | - | 57060 |
Passmark Graphics
G3D Mark Score
| G2D Mark | - | 604 |
| DirectX 11 | - | 58 FPS |
| DirectX 12 | - | 30 FPS |
| GPU Compute | - | 3552 Ops/s |
Specifications
Technical specifications of Nvidia N1X (40SM) and Adreno X2-90General
| Vendor | Nvidia | Qualcomm |
| Build | Integrated | Integrated |
| Released | June 1, 2026 | September 25, 2025 |
| Case | Laptop | Laptop |
| Purpose | Professional | Generic |
| Segment | Mid-range | Mid-range |
| Architecture | Blackwell (N1x) | Adreno X2 |
| GPU Codename | GB20B | Adreno X2 |
| Rival Equivalent | - Apple M5 Max GPU (32-core) | - Apple M4 Max GPU (40-core) |
| Recommended CPU | - Nvidia RTX Spark N1X (18-Core) or above | - Qualcomm Snapdragon X2 Elite Extreme (X2E-96-100) or above |
| Used in CPUs | - Nvidia RTX Spark N1X (18-Core) | - Qualcomm Snapdragon X2 Elite (X2E-90-100) - Qualcomm Snapdragon X2 Elite (X2E-88-100) - Qualcomm Snapdragon X2 Elite Extreme (X2E-94-100) - Qualcomm Snapdragon X2 Elite Extreme (X2E-96-100) |
Laptop GPU ranking (#37th place)
Graphics Processing Unit
| Base Clock | 1665 MHz | 500 MHz |
| Boost Clock | 2535 MHz | 1700-1850 MHz (configurable) |
| Shading Units | 5120 | 2048 |
| Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) | 160 | 128 |
| Render Output Units (ROPs) | 40 | 64 |
| Compute Units (Pipelines) | 40 | 12 |
| Tensor Cores | 160 | No |
| Ray-tracing Cores | 40 | - |
| L1 Cache | 128KB per cluster | - |
| L2 Cache | 24MB shared | - |
| Instructions Per Cycle | 2 IPC | 2 IPC |
Raw Performance
| Pixel Fill Rate | 101 GPixel/s | 109-118 GPixel/s |
| Texture Fill Rate | 406 GTexel/s | 218-237 GTexel/s |
FLOPS (FP32)
Physical
| Interface | PCIe 5.0 x16 | IGP |
| Manufacturing | TSMC | TSMC |
| Fabrication Process | 3 nm | 3 nm |
| Die Size | 173.6 mm² | 220 mm² |
Memory
| Memory Type | System Shared | System Shared |
| Bus | - | 192-bit |
| ECC | No | No |
Memory Bandwidth
API
| DirectX | - | 12.2 |
| Vulkan | 1.4 | 1.4 |
| OpenCL | 3.0 | 3.0 |
| CUDA | 12.1 | No |
| Ray Tracing | Yes | Yes |
| DLSS | DLSS 4 | No |
| DisplayPort | - | 1.4 |
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