Nvidia N1X (40SM) vs Apple M5 Max GPU (32-core)
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Nvidia N1X (40SM)
GB20B
Apple M5 Max GPU (32-core)
Custom
We compared two integrated laptop professional GPUs: the Nvidia N1X (40SM) with 40 pipelines and 5120 shaders against the 3 months older Apple M5 Max GPU (32-core) that utilizes 512 pipelines and 4096 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)
- 86% higher maximum theoretical performance (24.8 vs 13.3 TFLOPS)
- Supports Nvidia DLSS 4 technology
- Has 25% more shading units (5120 vs 4096)
Reasons to consider the Apple M5 Max GPU (32-core)
- Has 69% higher memory bandwidth: 460.8 vs 273.2 GB/s
Benchmarks
Graphics cards’ performance in recent benchmarking apps3D Mark
Steel Nomad Lite Score
| Solar Bay | - | 69788 |
| Wild Life Extreme | - | 35786 |
GeekBench 6 GPU Compute
GB6 Compute Score
| Background Blur | - | 234.8 img/sec |
| Face Detection | - | 158.1 img/sec |
| Horizon Detection | - | 4.48 Gpixels/sec |
| Edge Detection | - | 6.62 Gpixels/sec |
| Gaussian Blur | - | 7.19 Gpixels/sec |
| Feature Matching | - | 1.17 Gpixels/sec |
| Stereo Matching | - | 384.9 Gpixels/sec |
| Particle Physics | - | 17866.8 FPS |
| API | - | OpenCL |
Artificial Intelligence Tests
Performance in machine learning and artificial intelligence tasksGeekBench 6 ML
GB6 ML Single Precision
GB6 ML Half Precision
GB6 ML Quantized
| Image Classification (SP) | - | 10338 |
| Image Segmentation (HP) | - | 42053 |
| Image Super Resolution (Q) | - | 41729 |
| Face Detection (HP) | - | 71929 |
| Pose Estimation (Q) | - | 287035 |
| Text Classification (SP) | - | 2958 |
| Machine Translation (HP) | - | 9156 |
| Object Detection (SP) | - | 9951 |
| Depth Estimation (Q) | - | 82338 |
| Style Transfer (SP) | - | 264780 |
| Framework | - | Core ML |
| Backend | - | GPU |
Specifications
Technical specifications of Nvidia N1X (40SM) and Apple M5 Max GPU (32-core)General
| Vendor | Nvidia | Apple |
| Build | Integrated | Integrated |
| Released | June 1, 2026 | March 3, 2026 |
| Case | Laptop | Laptop |
| Purpose | Professional | Professional |
| Segment | Mid-range | Mid-range |
| Architecture | Blackwell (N1x) | Apple M GPU |
| GPU Codename | GB20B | Custom |
| Rival Equivalent | - Apple M5 Max GPU (32-core) | - |
| Recommended CPU | - Nvidia RTX Spark N1X (18-Core) or above | - Apple M5 Max (32-сore GPU) or above |
| Used in CPUs | - | - Apple M5 Max (32-сore GPU) |
Laptop GPU ranking (#9th place)
Graphics Processing Unit
| Base Clock | 1665 MHz | - |
| Boost Clock | 2418 MHz | 1620 MHz |
| Shading Units | 5120 | 4096 |
| Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) | 160 | 256 |
| Render Output Units (ROPs) | 40 | 128 |
| Compute Units (Pipelines) | 40 | 512 |
| Tensor Cores | 160 | - |
| 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 | 97 GPixel/s | 207 GPixel/s |
| Texture Fill Rate | 387 GTexel/s | 415 GTexel/s |
FLOPS (FP32)
Physical
| Interface | PCIe 5.0 x16 | Custom |
| Manufacturing | TSMC | TSMC |
| Fabrication Process | 3 nm | 3 nm |
| Die Size | 173.6 mm² | - |
| Transistor Count | - | 28 billion |
| Max. Temperature | - | 100°C |
Memory
| Memory Type | System Shared | System Shared |
| Memory Clock | - | 9600 MHz |
| Bus | 256-bit | 384-bit |
| ECC | No | No |
Memory Bandwidth
API
| Vulkan | 1.4 | - |
| OpenCL | 3.0 | - |
| CUDA | 12.1 | - |
| Ray Tracing | Yes | Yes |
| DLSS | DLSS 4 | No |
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