Apple A18 Pro GPU vs GeForce RTX 5080

[ VERDICT ] Winner: GeForce RTX 5080 (84/100)

GeForce RTX 5080 leads overall with a score of 84/100 compared to Apple A18 Pro GPU (28/100), offering superior measured performance and technical specifications.

Why choose Apple A18 Pro GPU:
  • + Higher Efficiency score (95 vs 48)
Why choose GeForce RTX 5080:
  • + Higher Gaming score (88 vs 11)

Benchmark Performance Comparison

Normalized Lab Scores
Benchmark measurements and scores across compared devices
Benchmark Apple A18 Pro GPU GeForce RTX 5080
Efficiency 95.0 Excellent WINNER 48.0 Poor
Gaming 11.0 Poor 88.0 Very Good WINNER

Detailed Technical Specifications

3D Mark

3D Mark specifications comparison
Specification Apple A18 Pro GPU GeForce RTX 5080
Solar Bay 7374 —
Wild Life Extreme 3947 —
Fire Strike — 75605
Night Raid — 199650
Port Royal — 23275
Solar Bay — 161489
Time Spy — 33000
Wild Life Extreme — 69617

API

API specifications comparison
Specification Apple A18 Pro GPU GeForce RTX 5080
DLSS No DLSS 4
Ray Tracing Yes —
CUDA — 12.0
DirectX — 12.2
DisplayPort — 2.1b
OpenCL — 3.0
OpenGL — 4.6
Ray Tracing — Yes
Vulkan — 1.4

GeekBench 6 GPU Compute

GeekBench 6 GPU Compute specifications comparison
Specification Apple A18 Pro GPU GeForce RTX 5080
API Metal OpenCL
Background Blur 57.1 img/sec —
Edge Detection 1.21 Gpixels/sec —
Face Detection 91.4 img/sec —
Feature Matching 0.45 Gpixels/sec —
Gaussian Blur 1.5 Gpixels/sec —
Horizon Detection 0.92 Gpixels/sec —
Particle Physics 3061 FPS —
Stereo Matching 84.2 Gpixels/sec —

GeekBench 6 ML

GeekBench 6 ML specifications comparison
Specification Apple A18 Pro GPU GeForce RTX 5080
Backend GPU DirectML
Depth Estimation (Q) 13468 —
Face Detection (HP) 11770 —
Framework Core ML ONNX
Image Classification (SP) 3264 —
Image Segmentation (HP) 4550 —
Image Super Resolution (Q) 6705 —
Machine Translation (HP) 5678 —
Object Detection (SP) 3360 —
Pose Estimation (Q) 15548 —
Style Transfer (SP) 31541 —
Text Classification (SP) 3678 —
Depth Estimation (Q) — 69068
Face Detection (HP) — 92863
Image Classification (SP) — 15441
Image Segmentation (HP) — 47173
Image Super Resolution (Q) — 43223
Machine Translation (HP) — 7905
Object Detection (SP) — 20955
Pose Estimation (Q) — 202202
Style Transfer (SP) — 349205
Text Classification (SP) — 3701

General

General specifications comparison
Specification Apple A18 Pro GPU GeForce RTX 5080
Architecture Apple M GPU Blackwell 2.0
Build Integrated Discrete
Case Laptop Desktop
GPU Codename Custom —
Purpose Generic Gaming
Recommended CPU -Apple A18 Pro (MacBook)or above —
Released September 9, 2024 January 7, 2025
Segment Mid-range High-end
Used in CPUs -Apple A18 Pro (MacBook) —
Vendor Apple Nvidia
GPU Codename — GB203-400
Launch price (MSRP) — $999
Recommended CPU — -Intel Core Ultra 7 265Kor above

Graphics Processing Unit

Graphics Processing Unit specifications comparison
Specification Apple A18 Pro GPU GeForce RTX 5080
Boost Clock 1490 MHz —
Compute Units (Pipelines) 128 —
Instructions Per Cycle 2 IPC —
Shading Units 768 —
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 40 —
Base Clock — 2295 MHz
Boost Clock — 2617 MHz
Compute Units (Pipelines) — 84
Instructions Per Cycle — 2 IPC
L1 Cache — 128KB per cluster
L2 Cache — 64MB shared
Ray-tracing Cores — 84
Render Output Units (ROPs) — 112
Shading Units — 10752
Tensor Cores — 336
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) — 336

Memory

Memory specifications comparison
Specification Apple A18 Pro GPU GeForce RTX 5080
Bus 128-bit 256-bit
ECC No No
Memory Clock 7500 MHz —
Memory Type System Shared —
Effective Memory Speed — 30000 Mbps
Memory Clock — 1875 MHz
Memory Size — 16 GB
Memory Type — GDDR7

Physical

Physical specifications comparison
Specification Apple A18 Pro GPU GeForce RTX 5080
Fabrication Process 3 nm —
Interface Custom PCIe 5.0 x16
Manufacturing TSMC TSMC
Die Size — 378 mm²
Fabrication Process — 4 nm
TGP — 360 W
Transistor Count — 45.6 billion
Transistor Density — 120.63 MTr/mm²

Raw Performance

Raw Performance specifications comparison
Specification Apple A18 Pro GPU GeForce RTX 5080
Texture Fill Rate 60 GTexel/s —
Pixel Fill Rate — 293 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate — 879 GTexel/s

Recent User Tests

Recent User Tests specifications comparison
Specification Apple A18 Pro GPU GeForce RTX 5080
Date Benchmark Benchmark
📘 2026-04-24->Rennsport GeekBench —
📘 2026-06-01(Nowh) — Cinebench 2024

Games

Games specifications comparison
Specification Apple A18 Pro GPU GeForce RTX 5080
1080p High — 239
1080p Ultra — 205
1440p Ultra — 165
4K Ultra — 96
CoD: Modern Warfare III — 250244197135
Counter-Strike 2 — 31723817887
Cyberpunk 2077 — 21319213861
Far Cry 6 — 19417115597
Forza Horizon 5 — 250186179138
Ghost of Tsushima — 16614212682
Hogwarts Legacy — 18515212467
Margin of Error — Low
Shadow of the Tomb Raider — 306276214111
The Witcher 3 — 27124417290

GeekBench 6 OpenCL

GeekBench 6 OpenCL specifications comparison
Specification Apple A18 Pro GPU GeForce RTX 5080
API Metal OpenCL
Background Blur — 319.6 img/sec
Edge Detection — 19.5 Gpixels/sec
Face Detection — 225 img/sec
Feature Matching — 2.33 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur — 20.4 Gpixels/sec
Horizon Detection — 13.6 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics — 43676.6 FPS
Stereo Matching — 1750 Gpixels/sec

Passmark Graphics

Passmark Graphics specifications comparison
Specification Apple A18 Pro GPU GeForce RTX 5080
DirectX 11 — 327 FPS
DirectX 12 — 145 FPS
G2D Mark — 1397
GPU Compute — 19034 Ops/s

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