Apple 8-Core M4-FL vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 Laptop 110W Full Specs

Summary

1,024 Shaders 1.58GHz	2,560 Shaders 2.35GHz
Shared Memory120GB/sLPDDR5X	6GB GDDR6192GB/s placeholder
Peak·FP32·FP16 3.23 TFLOPS	Peak·FP32·FP16 12.06 TFLOPS
Form Factor iGPU	Form Factor Soldered
TDP Shared	TDP 110W

Theoretical Performance

Clock Speed1578MHz UC·Boost·OC	Clock Speed2355MHz UC·Base·Boost·OC
Peak OPS 3.23 TFLOPSFP16	Peak OPS 385.8 TOPSINT4 Tensor Sparse
-	Tensor FP8-16 96.46 TFLOPS FP8-16 Tensor Sparse 192.9 TFLOPS Tensor FP8-32 48.23 TFLOPS FP8-32 Tensor Sparse 96.46 TFLOPS
-	Tensor FP16-16 48.23 TFLOPS FP16-16 Tensor Sparse 96.46 TFLOPS Tensor FP16-32 24.12 TFLOPS FP16-32 Tensor Sparse 48.23 TFLOPS
-	BF16 12.06 TFLOPS Tensor BF16 24.12 TFLOPS BF16 Tensor Sparse 48.23 TFLOPS
Tensor TF32 -	Tensor TF32 12.06 TFLOPS
FP32 3.23 TFLOPS	FP32 12.06 TFLOPS
-	FP64 188.4 GFLOPS
Tensor INT4 -	Tensor INT4 192.9 TOPS
-	Tensor INT8 96.46 TOPS
Ray -	Ray 27.87 TOPS
Pixel Rate 50.5 GPixel/s	Pixel Rate 75.4 GPixel/s
Texture Rate 101 GTexel/s	Texture Rate 188.4 GTexel/s

Core Config

Shaders 1,024 Shaders	Shaders 2,560 Shaders
TMUs 64 TMUs	TMUs 80 TMUs
ROPs 32 ROPs	ROPs 32 ROPs
Tensor Cores -	Tensor Cores 80 T-Cores
RT Cores 8 RT-Cores	RT Cores 20 RT-Cores
EUs 128 EUs	SMs 20 SMs

Clocks

Base Clock -	Base Clock 2.07GHz
Boost Clock 1.58GHz	Boost Clock 2.35GHz

Cache

L2 Cache 2MB shared

L2 Cache 12MB shared

Memory

Shared MemoryLPDDR5X	6GB GDDR6 placeholder
Memory Bus 128-bit	Memory Bus 96-bit
Memory Speed 7.5GT/s	Memory Speed 16GT/s
Memory Bandwidth 120GB/s	Memory Bandwidth 192GB/s
ECC No	ECC No

Power & Thermals

TDP Shared

TDP 110W

Video Output

Multi-Monitor 2	Multi-Monitor 4
HDCP -	HDCP HDCP 2.3

Encoder

Encoder Model Apple Media Engine 3	Encoder Model NVENC 8
Codec AVC (H.264) HEVC (H.265) - ProRes	Codec AVC (H.264) HEVC (H.265) AV1 -

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 7	Architecture Ada Lovelace
Family M Series	Family GeForce 40
Branding	Branding
Codename G16G	Codename NV187
Chip Variant -	Chip Variant AD107
Market Segment Tablet	Market Segment Laptop
Release Date Mar 5, 2025	Release Date Feb 22, 2023

Fabrication

Foundry TSMC	Foundry TSMC
Fabrication Node N3E	Fabrication Node 4N
Die Size 169mm²	Die Size 159mm²
Transistor Count 28 Billion	Transistor Count 18.9 Billion
Transistor Density 165 MTr/mm²	Transistor Density 118.9 MTr/mm²

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