Apple 10-Core M5 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop 110W Full Specs

Summary

1,280 Shaders 1.62GHz	3,840 Shaders 1.68GHz
Shared Memory153.6GB/sLPDDR5X	6GB GDDR6336GB/s placeholder
Peak·FP32·FP16 4.15 TFLOPS	Peak·FP32·FP16 12.9 TFLOPS
Form Factor iGPU	Form Factor Soldered
TDP Shared	TDP 110W

Theoretical Performance

Clock Speed1620MHz UC·Boost·OC	Clock Speed1680MHz UC·Base·Boost·OC
Peak OPS 33.18 TOPSINT8 Tensor	Peak OPS 412.9 TOPSINT4 Tensor Sparse
Tensor FP16-16 8.29 TFLOPS FP16-16 Tensor Sparse - Tensor FP16-32 8.29 TFLOPS FP16-32 Tensor Sparse -	Tensor FP16-16 51.61 TFLOPS FP16-16 Tensor Sparse 103.2 TFLOPS Tensor FP16-32 25.8 TFLOPS FP16-32 Tensor Sparse 51.61 TFLOPS
BF16 - Tensor BF16 16.59 TFLOPS BF16 Tensor Sparse -	BF16 12.9 TFLOPS Tensor BF16 25.8 TFLOPS BF16 Tensor Sparse 51.61 TFLOPS
Tensor TF32 -	Tensor TF32 12.9 TFLOPS
FP32 4.15 TFLOPS	FP32 12.9 TFLOPS
-	FP64 201.6 GFLOPS
Tensor INT4 -	Tensor INT4 206.4 TOPS
Tensor INT8 33.18 TOPS	Tensor INT8 103.2 TOPS
Ray -	Ray 19.46 TOPS
Pixel Rate 64.8 GPixel/s	Pixel Rate 80.6 GPixel/s
Texture Rate 129.6 GTexel/s	Texture Rate 201.6 GTexel/s

Core Config

Shaders 1,280 Shaders	Shaders 3,840 Shaders
TMUs 80 TMUs	TMUs 120 TMUs
ROPs 40 ROPs	ROPs 48 ROPs
Tensor Cores 10 T-Cores	Tensor Cores 120 T-Cores
RT Cores 10 RT-Cores	RT Cores 30 RT-Cores
EUs 160 EUs	SMs 30 SMs

Clocks

Base Clock -	Base Clock 1.34GHz
Boost Clock 1.62GHz	Boost Clock 1.68GHz

Cache

L2 Cache 2MB shared

L2 Cache 3MB shared

Memory

Shared MemoryLPDDR5X	6GB GDDR6 placeholder
Memory Bus 128-bit	Memory Bus 192-bit
Memory Speed 9.6GT/s	Memory Speed 14GT/s
Memory Bandwidth 153.6GB/s	Memory Bandwidth 336GB/s
ECC No	ECC No

Power & Thermals

TDP Shared

TDP 110W

Video Output

Multi-Monitor 2	Multi-Monitor 3
HDCP -	HDCP HDCP 2.3

Encoder

Encoder Model Apple Media Engine 3	Encoder Model NVENC 7
Codec AVC (H.264) HEVC (H.265) ProRes	Codec AVC (H.264) HEVC (H.265) -

Decoder

Decoder Model Apple Media Engine 3	Decoder Model NVDEC 5
Codec - - - - - - AVC (H.264) HEVC (H.265) AV1 ProRes	Codec MPEG-1 MPEG-2 MPEG-4 VC-1 VP8 VP9 AVC (H.264) HEVC (H.265) AV1 -

Card

Form Factor iGPU

Form Factor Soldered

Chip

Manufacturer Apple	Manufacturer NVIDIA
Chip Designer Apple	Chip Designer NVIDIA
Architecture Apple Gen 8	Architecture Ampere
Family M Series	Family GeForce 30
Branding	Branding
Codename G17G	Codename NV176
Chip Variant -	Chip Variant GA106-150-KA-A1
Market Segment Laptop	Market Segment Laptop
Release Date Oct 15, 2025	Release Date Feb 25, 2021

Fabrication

Foundry TSMC	Foundry Samsung
Fabrication Node N3P	Fabrication Node 8N
Die Size -	Die Size 276mm²
Transistor Count -	Transistor Count 13.3 Billion
Transistor Density -	Transistor Density 48.01 MTr/mm²

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