Apple M5 GPU (8-Core) vs GeForce RTX 5080
[ VERDICT ]
Winner: GeForce RTX 5080 (84/100)
Both devices are evenly matched with an overall score of 84/100.
Benchmark Performance Comparison
Normalized Lab Scores| Benchmark | Apple M5 GPU (8-Core) | GeForce RTX 5080 |
|---|---|---|
| Efficiency | — | 48.0 Poor |
| Gaming | — | 88.0 Very Good |
Detailed Technical Specifications
3D Mark
| Specification | Apple M5 GPU (8-Core) | GeForce RTX 5080 |
|---|---|---|
| Solar Bay | 19617 | 161489 |
| Wild Life Extreme | 9804 | 69617 |
| Fire Strike | — | 75605 |
| Night Raid | — | 199650 |
| Port Royal | — | 23275 |
| Time Spy | — | 33000 |
API
| Specification | Apple M5 GPU (8-Core) | GeForce RTX 5080 |
|---|---|---|
| DLSS | No | DLSS 4 |
| Ray Tracing | Yes | Yes |
| CUDA | — | 12.0 |
| DirectX | — | 12.2 |
| DisplayPort | — | 2.1b |
| OpenCL | — | 3.0 |
| OpenGL | — | 4.6 |
| Vulkan | — | 1.4 |
General
| Specification | Apple M5 GPU (8-Core) | GeForce RTX 5080 |
|---|---|---|
| Architecture | Apple M GPU | Blackwell 2.0 |
| Build | Integrated | Discrete |
| Case | Laptop | Desktop |
| GPU Codename | Custom | GB203-400 |
| Purpose | Professional | Gaming |
| Recommended CPU | -Apple M5 (8-core GPU)or above | -Intel Core Ultra 7 265Kor above |
| Released | March 3, 2026 | January 7, 2025 |
| Segment | Mid-range | High-end |
| Used in CPUs | -Apple M5 (8-core GPU) | — |
| Vendor | Apple | Nvidia |
| Launch price (MSRP) | — | $999 |
Graphics Processing Unit
| Specification | Apple M5 GPU (8-Core) | GeForce RTX 5080 |
|---|---|---|
| Boost Clock | 1620 MHz | 2617 MHz |
| Compute Units (Pipelines) | 128 | 84 |
| Instructions Per Cycle | 2 IPC | 2 IPC |
| Render Output Units (ROPs) | 32 | 112 |
| Shading Units | 1024 | 10752 |
| Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) | 64 | 336 |
| Base Clock | — | 2295 MHz |
| L1 Cache | — | 128KB per cluster |
| L2 Cache | — | 64MB shared |
| Ray-tracing Cores | — | 84 |
| Tensor Cores | — | 336 |
Memory
| Specification | Apple M5 GPU (8-Core) | GeForce RTX 5080 |
|---|---|---|
| Bus | 128-bit | 256-bit |
| ECC | No | No |
| Memory Clock | 9600 MHz | 1875 MHz |
| Memory Type | System Shared | GDDR7 |
| Effective Memory Speed | — | 30000 Mbps |
| Memory Size | — | 16 GB |
Physical
| Specification | Apple M5 GPU (8-Core) | GeForce RTX 5080 |
|---|---|---|
| Fabrication Process | 3 nm | 4 nm |
| Interface | Custom | PCIe 5.0 x16 |
| Manufacturing | TSMC | TSMC |
| Max. Temperature | 100°C | — |
| Transistor Count | 28 billion | 45.6 billion |
| Die Size | — | 378 mm² |
| TGP | — | 360 W |
| Transistor Density | — | 120.63 MTr/mm² |
Raw Performance
| Specification | Apple M5 GPU (8-Core) | GeForce RTX 5080 |
|---|---|---|
| Pixel Fill Rate | 52 GPixel/s | 293 GPixel/s |
| Texture Fill Rate | 104 GTexel/s | 879 GTexel/s |
Recent User Tests
| Specification | Apple M5 GPU (8-Core) | GeForce RTX 5080 |
|---|---|---|
| Date | Benchmark | Benchmark |
| 📘 2026-06-08(h) | GeekBench | — |
| 📘 2026-06-01(Nowh) | — | Cinebench 2024 |
Games
| Specification | Apple M5 GPU (8-Core) | 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 ML
| Specification | Apple M5 GPU (8-Core) | GeForce RTX 5080 |
|---|---|---|
| Backend | — | DirectML |
| Depth Estimation (Q) | — | 69068 |
| Face Detection (HP) | — | 92863 |
| Framework | — | ONNX |
| 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 |
GeekBench 6 OpenCL
| Specification | Apple M5 GPU (8-Core) | GeForce RTX 5080 |
|---|---|---|
| API | — | 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
| Specification | Apple M5 GPU (8-Core) | GeForce RTX 5080 |
|---|---|---|
| DirectX 11 | — | 327 FPS |
| DirectX 12 | — | 145 FPS |
| G2D Mark | — | 1397 |
| GPU Compute | — | 19034 Ops/s |
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