Nvidia N1X (48SM) vs N1X (40SM)

We compared two integrated laptop professional GPUs: the Nvidia N1X (48SM) with 48 pipelines and 6144 shaders against the N1X (40SM) that utilizes 40 pipelines and 5120 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

Key distinctions and advantages of N1X (40SM) over N1X (48SM)
Reasons to consider the Nvidia N1X (48SM)
  • 20% higher maximum theoretical performance (29.7 vs 24.8 TFLOPS)

Benchmarks

Graphics cards’ performance in recent benchmarking apps

Specifications

Technical specifications of Nvidia N1X (48SM) and N1X (40SM)

General

Vendor Nvidia Nvidia
Build Integrated Integrated
Released June 1, 2026 June 1, 2026
Case Laptop Laptop
Purpose Professional Professional
Segment Mid-range Mid-range
Architecture Blackwell (N1x) Blackwell (N1x)
GPU Codename GB20B GB20B
Rival Equivalent - Apple M5 Max GPU (40-core) - Apple M5 Max GPU (32-core)
Recommended CPU - Nvidia RTX Spark N1X (20-Core) or above - Nvidia RTX Spark N1X (18-Core) or above

Graphics Processing Unit

Base Clock 1665 MHz 1665 MHz
Boost Clock 2418 MHz 2418 MHz
Shading Units 6144 5120
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 192 160
Render Output Units (ROPs) 48 40
Compute Units (Pipelines) 48 40
Tensor Cores 192 160
Ray-tracing Cores 48 40
L1 Cache 128KB per cluster 128KB per cluster
L2 Cache 24MB shared 24MB shared
Instructions Per Cycle 2 IPC 2 IPC

Raw Performance

Pixel Fill Rate 116 GPixel/s 97 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 464 GTexel/s 387 GTexel/s
FLOPS (FP32)
N1X (48SM) +20%
29.7 TFLOPS
24.8 TFLOPS

Physical

Interface PCIe 5.0 x16 PCIe 5.0 x16
Manufacturing TSMC TSMC
Fabrication Process 3 nm 3 nm
Die Size 173.6 mm² 173.6 mm²

Memory

Memory Type System Shared System Shared
Bus 256-bit 256-bit
ECC No No
Memory Bandwidth
273.2 GB/s
273.2 GB/s

API

Vulkan 1.4 1.4
OpenCL 3.0 3.0
CUDA 12.1 12.1
Ray Tracing Yes Yes
DLSS DLSS 4 DLSS 4

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