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

Summary

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

Theoretical Performance

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

Core Config

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

Clocks

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

Cache

L2 Cache 3MB shared

L2 Cache 2MB shared

Memory

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

Power & Thermals

TDP 110W

TDP Shared

Video Output

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

Encoder

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

Decoder

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

Card

Form Factor Soldered

Form Factor iGPU

Chip

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

Fabrication

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

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