Apple 5-Core A18 Pro vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop 115W Full Specs

Summary

640 Shaders 1.47GHz	3,840 Shaders 1.7GHz
Shared Memory60GB/sLPDDR5X	6GB GDDR6336GB/s placeholder
Peak·FP32·FP16 1.88 TFLOPS	Peak·FP32·FP16 13.07 TFLOPS
Form Factor iGPU	Form Factor Soldered
TDP Shared	TDP 115W

Highlights

Peak OPS

Peak OPS FP32 FP16 Tensor FP16-16 FP16-16 Tensor Sparse Tensor FP16-32 FP16-32 Tensor Sparse FP64 BF16 Tensor BF16 BF16 Tensor Sparse Tensor TF32 Tensor INT8 Tensor INT4 Memory Bandwidth TDP

5-Core A18 Pro1.88 TFLOPSFP16

x1

GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop 115W418.3 TOPSINT4 Tensor Sparse

x222.30

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Theoretical Performance

Clock Speed1470MHz UC·Boost·OC	Clock Speed1702MHz UC·Base·Boost·OC
Peak OPS 1.88 TFLOPSFP16	Peak OPS 418.3 TOPSINT4 Tensor Sparse
-	Tensor FP16-16 52.29 TFLOPS FP16-16 Tensor Sparse 104.6 TFLOPS Tensor FP16-32 26.14 TFLOPS FP16-32 Tensor Sparse 52.29 TFLOPS
-	BF16 13.07 TFLOPS Tensor BF16 26.14 TFLOPS BF16 Tensor Sparse 52.29 TFLOPS
Tensor TF32 -	Tensor TF32 13.07 TFLOPS
FP32 1.88 TFLOPS	FP32 13.07 TFLOPS
-	FP64 204.2 GFLOPS
Tensor INT4 -	Tensor INT4 209.1 TOPS
-	Tensor INT8 104.6 TOPS
Ray -	Ray 19.71 TOPS
Pixel Rate 29.4 GPixel/s	Pixel Rate 81.7 GPixel/s
Texture Rate 58.8 GTexel/s	Texture Rate 204.2 GTexel/s

Core Config

Shaders 640 Shaders	Shaders 3,840 Shaders
TMUs 40 TMUs	TMUs 120 TMUs
ROPs 20 ROPs	ROPs 48 ROPs
Tensor Cores -	Tensor Cores 120 T-Cores
RT Cores 5 RT-Cores	RT Cores 30 RT-Cores
EUs 80 EUs	SMs 30 SMs

Clocks

Base Clock -	Base Clock 1.39GHz
Boost Clock 1.47GHz	Boost Clock 1.7GHz

Cache

L1 -	L1 64KB/SM Tex
L2 Cache 768KB shared	L2 Cache 3MB shared

Memory

Shared MemoryLPDDR5X	6GB GDDR6 placeholder
Memory Bus 64-bit	Memory Bus 192-bit
Memory Speed 7.5GT/s	Memory Speed 14GT/s
Memory Bandwidth 60GB/s	Memory Bandwidth 336GB/s
ECC No	ECC No

Power & Thermals

TDP Shared

TDP 115W

Video Output

Max Resolution 3840x2160	Max Resolution 7680x4320
Refresh Rate Calculator 3840x2160 Resolution4K UHD Refresh Rate 60Hz	Refresh Rate Calculator 7680x4320 Resolution8K UHD Refresh Rate 60Hz
Multi-Monitor 1	Multi-Monitor 3
Adaptive Sync -	Adaptive Sync G-Sync FreeSync
DSC Not Supported	DSC Supported
HDCP -	HDCP HDCP 2.3

API Support

Shader Model -	Shader Model 6.6
-	DirectX DirectX 12 Direct3D 12_2
-	OpenGL 4.6 OpenCL 3 Vulkan 1.2
-	CUDA 8.6 PureVideo HD VP11 VDPAU Feature Set K

Encoder

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

Decoder

Decoder Apple Media Engine 3	Decoder 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
PCIe -	PCIe PCIe 4.0 x8

Chip

Manufacturer Apple	Manufacturer NVIDIA
Chip Designer Apple	Chip Designer NVIDIA
Architecture Apple Gen 7	Architecture Ampere
Family A Series	Family GeForce 30
Branding	Branding
Codename G17P	Codename NV176
Chip Variant -	Chip Variant GA106-150-KA-A1
Market Segment Smartphone	Market Segment Laptop
Release Date Mar 4, 2026	Release Date Feb 25, 2021

Fabrication

Foundry TSMC	Foundry Samsung
Fabrication Node N3E	Fabrication Node 8N
Die Size 110mm²	Die Size 276mm²
Transistor Count 18.4B	Transistor Count 13.3B
Transistor Density 168 MTr/mm²	Transistor Density 48.01 MTr/mm²

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