Apple M5 GPU (8-Core) vs GeForce RTX 4090
[ VERDICT ]
Winner: GeForce RTX 4090 (89/100)
Both devices are evenly matched with an overall score of 89/100.
Benchmark Performance Comparison
Normalized Lab Scores| Benchmark | Apple M5 GPU (8-Core) | GeForce RTX 4090 |
|---|---|---|
| Efficiency | — | 43.0 Poor |
| Gaming | — | 93.0 Excellent |
Detailed Technical Specifications
3D Mark
| Specification | Apple M5 GPU (8-Core) | GeForce RTX 4090 |
|---|---|---|
| Solar Bay | 19617 | 187525 |
| Wild Life Extreme | 9804 | 85218 |
| Fire Strike | — | 72432 |
| Night Raid | — | 195813 |
| Port Royal | — | 26127 |
| Time Spy | — | 36299 |
API
| Specification | Apple M5 GPU (8-Core) | GeForce RTX 4090 |
|---|---|---|
| DLSS | No | DLSS 3 |
| Ray Tracing | Yes | Yes |
| CUDA | — | 8.9 |
| DirectX | — | 12 |
| DisplayPort | — | 1.4a |
| OpenCL | — | 3.0 |
| OpenGL | — | 4.6 |
| Vulkan | — | 1.3 |
General
| Specification | Apple M5 GPU (8-Core) | GeForce RTX 4090 |
|---|---|---|
| Architecture | Apple M GPU | Ada Lovelace |
| Build | Integrated | Discrete |
| Case | Laptop | Desktop |
| GPU Codename | Custom | AD102 |
| Purpose | Professional | Gaming |
| Recommended CPU | -Apple M5 (8-core GPU)or above | -Intel Core i9 14900Kor above |
| Released | March 3, 2026 | September 20, 2022 |
| Segment | Mid-range | High-end |
| Used in CPUs | -Apple M5 (8-core GPU) | — |
| Vendor | Apple | Nvidia |
| Launch price (MSRP) | — | $1599 |
| Successor | — | -GeForce RTX 5090 |
Graphics Processing Unit
| Specification | Apple M5 GPU (8-Core) | GeForce RTX 4090 |
|---|---|---|
| Boost Clock | 1620 MHz | 2520 MHz |
| Compute Units (Pipelines) | 128 | 128 |
| Instructions Per Cycle | 2 IPC | 2 IPC |
| Render Output Units (ROPs) | 32 | 176 |
| Shading Units | 1024 | 16384 |
| Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) | 64 | 512 |
| Base Clock | — | 2235 MHz |
| L1 Cache | — | 128KB per cluster |
| L2 Cache | — | 72MB shared |
| Ray-tracing Cores | — | 128 |
| Tensor Cores | — | 512 |
Memory
| Specification | Apple M5 GPU (8-Core) | GeForce RTX 4090 |
|---|---|---|
| Bus | 128-bit | 384-bit |
| ECC | No | No |
| Memory Clock | 9600 MHz | 2625 MHz |
| Memory Type | System Shared | GDDR6X |
| Effective Memory Speed | — | 21000 Mbps |
| Memory Size | — | 24 GB |
Physical
| Specification | Apple M5 GPU (8-Core) | GeForce RTX 4090 |
|---|---|---|
| Fabrication Process | 3 nm | 5 nm |
| Interface | Custom | PCIe 4.0 x16 |
| Manufacturing | TSMC | TSMC |
| Max. Temperature | 100°C | — |
| Transistor Count | 28 billion | 76.3 billion |
| Die Size | — | 609 mm² |
| TGP | — | 450 W |
| Transistor Density | — | 125.29 MTr/mm² |
Raw Performance
| Specification | Apple M5 GPU (8-Core) | GeForce RTX 4090 |
|---|---|---|
| Pixel Fill Rate | 52 GPixel/s | 444 GPixel/s |
| Texture Fill Rate | 104 GTexel/s | 1290 GTexel/s |
Recent User Tests
| Specification | Apple M5 GPU (8-Core) | GeForce RTX 4090 |
|---|---|---|
| Date | Benchmark | Benchmark |
| 📘 2026-06-08(h) | GeekBench | — |
| 📘 2026-04-03(afroman420IU) | — | Cinebench 2024 |
Games
| Specification | Apple M5 GPU (8-Core) | GeForce RTX 4090 |
|---|---|---|
| 1080p High | — | 255 |
| 1080p Ultra | — | 217 |
| 1440p Ultra | — | 177 |
| 4K Ultra | — | 106 |
| CoD: Modern Warfare III | — | 266263219151 |
| Counter-Strike 2 | — | 33923818890 |
| Cyberpunk 2077 | — | 22620814366 |
| Far Cry 6 | — | 203179170104 |
| Forza Horizon 5 | — | 275199193155 |
| Ghost of Tsushima | — | 18815213791 |
| Hogwarts Legacy | — | 20016313274 |
| Margin of Error | — | Low |
| Shadow of the Tomb Raider | — | 302284222118 |
| The Witcher 3 | — | 292268191101 |
GeekBench 6 ML
| Specification | Apple M5 GPU (8-Core) | GeForce RTX 4090 |
|---|---|---|
| Backend | — | DirectML |
| Depth Estimation (Q) | — | 75599 |
| Face Detection (HP) | — | 78111 |
| Framework | — | ONNX |
| Image Classification (SP) | — | 15600 |
| Image Segmentation (HP) | — | 36657 |
| Image Super Resolution (Q) | — | 48114 |
| Machine Translation (HP) | — | 6349 |
| Object Detection (SP) | — | 21186 |
| Pose Estimation (Q) | — | 289639 |
| Style Transfer (SP) | — | 601428 |
| Text Classification (SP) | — | 4074 |
GeekBench 6 OpenCL
| Specification | Apple M5 GPU (8-Core) | GeForce RTX 4090 |
|---|---|---|
| API | — | OpenCL |
| Background Blur | — | 318.9 img/sec |
| Edge Detection | — | 21 Gpixels/sec |
| Face Detection | — | 222.8 img/sec |
| Feature Matching | — | 2.38 Gpixels/sec |
| Gaussian Blur | — | 23.9 Gpixels/sec |
| Horizon Detection | — | 14.2 Gpixels/sec |
| Particle Physics | — | 48090.4 FPS |
| Stereo Matching | — | 1950 Gpixels/sec |
Passmark Graphics
| Specification | Apple M5 GPU (8-Core) | GeForce RTX 4090 |
|---|---|---|
| DirectX 11 | — | 323 FPS |
| DirectX 12 | — | 151 FPS |
| G2D Mark | — | 1303 |
| GPU Compute | — | 26022 Ops/s |
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