Nvidia N1X (48SM) vs Apple M4 Pro GPU (20-core)
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Nvidia N1X (48SM)
GB20B
Apple M4 Pro GPU (20-core)
Custom
We compared two integrated laptop professional GPUs: the Nvidia N1X (48SM) with 48 pipelines and 6144 shaders against the 1 year and 8 months older Apple M4 Pro GPU (20-core) that utilizes 320 pipelines and 2560 shaders. Here you will find complete details about specs, efficiency, performance tests, and more.
Please note that the tests on the Nvidia N1X (48SM) 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 (48SM)
- 3.7x higher maximum theoretical performance (29.7 vs 8.1 TFLOPS)
- Supports Nvidia DLSS 4 technology
- Has 2.4x more shading units (6144 vs 2560)
Benchmarks
Graphics cards’ performance in recent benchmarking apps3D Mark
Steel Nomad Lite Score
| Solar Bay | - | 33418 |
| Wild Life Extreme | - | 19535 |
GeekBench 6 GPU Compute
GB6 Compute Score
| Background Blur | - | 125.1 img/sec |
| Face Detection | - | 80 img/sec |
| Horizon Detection | - | 2.88 Gpixels/sec |
| Edge Detection | - | 4.22 Gpixels/sec |
| Gaussian Blur | - | 2.98 Gpixels/sec |
| Feature Matching | - | 0.8 Gpixels/sec |
| Stereo Matching | - | 235 Gpixels/sec |
| Particle Physics | - | 9516.1 FPS |
| API | - | OpenCL |
Cinebench 2024 GPU
Cinebench 2024 GPU
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) | - | 8046 |
| Image Segmentation (HP) | - | 15443 |
| Image Super Resolution (Q) | - | 20807 |
| Face Detection (HP) | - | 30860 |
| Pose Estimation (Q) | - | 56783 |
| Text Classification (SP) | - | 2888 |
| Machine Translation (HP) | - | 6167 |
| Object Detection (SP) | - | 7592 |
| Depth Estimation (Q) | - | 33607 |
| Style Transfer (SP) | - | 126726 |
| Framework | - | Core ML |
| Backend | - | GPU |
Specifications
Technical specifications of Nvidia N1X (48SM) and Apple M4 Pro GPU (20-core)General
| Vendor | Nvidia | Apple |
| Build | Integrated | Integrated |
| Released | June 1, 2026 | October 29, 2024 |
| 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 (40-core) | - GeForce RTX 4060 Laptop |
| Successor | - | - Apple M5 Pro GPU (20-core) |
| Recommended CPU | - Nvidia RTX Spark N1X (20-Core) or above | - Apple M4 Pro (14-Core) or above |
| Used in CPUs | - | - Apple M4 Pro (14-Core) |
Laptop GPU ranking (#38th place)
Graphics Processing Unit
| Base Clock | 1665 MHz | 500 MHz |
| Boost Clock | 2418 MHz | 1578 MHz |
| Shading Units | 6144 | 2560 |
| Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) | 192 | 160 |
| Render Output Units (ROPs) | 48 | 80 |
| Compute Units (Pipelines) | 48 | 320 |
| Tensor Cores | 192 | - |
| Ray-tracing Cores | 48 | - |
| L1 Cache | 128KB per cluster | - |
| L2 Cache | 24MB shared | - |
| Instructions Per Cycle | 2 IPC | 2 IPC |
Raw Performance
| Pixel Fill Rate | 116 GPixel/s | 126 GPixel/s |
| Texture Fill Rate | 464 GTexel/s | 252 GTexel/s |
FLOPS (FP32)
Physical
| Interface | PCIe 5.0 x16 | Custom |
| TGP | - | 26 W |
| Manufacturing | TSMC | TSMC |
| Fabrication Process | 3 nm | 3 nm |
| Die Size | 173.6 mm² | - |
| Max. Temperature | - | 100°C |
Memory
| Memory Type | System Shared | System Shared |
| Memory Clock | - | 8533 MHz |
| Effective Memory Speed | - | 15000 Mbps |
| Bus | 256-bit | 192-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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