Advantages
- More Total Cores: 20 (20 vs 10)
Basic
NVIDIA
Label Name
Apple
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Launch Date
October 2025
Laptop
Platform
Laptop
Arm
CPU Architecture
Apple custom ARM architecture
NVIDIA Grace CPU
CPU Name
Apple M5
NVIDIA RTX Spark N1X
Model Name
Apple M5 10-Core
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC N3P
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Generation
M5
Windows 11
OS Support
-
CPU Specifications
20
Total Cores
Cores is a hardware term that describes the number of independent central processing units in a single computing component (die or chip).
10
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Total Threads
10
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Performance-cores
4
-
Efficient-cores
6
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Max Turbo Frequency
4.61 GHz
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Efficient-core Max Turbo Frequency
3.05 GHz
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Performance-core Max Turbo Frequency
4.61 GHz
3 nm
Technology
Lithography refers to the semiconductor technology used to manufacture an integrated circuit, and is reported in nanometer (nm), indicative of the size of features built on the semiconductor.
Third-generation 3 nm
70 billion
Transistor Count
-
Memory Specifications
LPDDR5X unified memory
Memory Type
LPDDR5X unified memory
128 GB
Max Memory Size
Max memory size refers to the maximum memory capacity supported by the processor.
32 GB
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Max Memory Bandwidth
Max Memory bandwidth is the maximum rate at which data can be read from or stored into a semiconductor memory by the processor (in GB/s).
153 GB/s
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Maximum Memory Speed
9600 MT/s
GPU Specifications
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External Display Standard
Thunderbolt / DisplayPort over USB-C; HDMI
NVIDIA Blackwell RTX GPU
GPU Name
Apple M5 10-core GPU
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Hardware-accelerated ray tracing
Supported
-
Max External Display Resolution
Up to two external displays: two 6K at 60Hz or 4K at 144Hz; or one 8K at 60Hz, 5K at 120Hz or 4K at 240Hz
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Video Decode
H.264, HEVC, ProRes, ProRes RAW, AV1; hardware-accelerated; frame rate not disclosed
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Video Encode
H.264, HEVC, ProRes, ProRes RAW; hardware-accelerated; frame rate not disclosed
6144
Graphics Core Count
10
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Max Resolution
Up to 8K at 60Hz or 4K at 240Hz
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GPU APIs
Metal
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Media Engine
Hardware-accelerated H.264, HEVC, ProRes and ProRes RAW; AV1 decode
-
Video Decode Engines
1
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Video Encode Engines
1
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ProRes Encode/Decode Engines
1
AI Specifications
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AI Engine
Apple Neural Engine with Neural Accelerators in GPU cores
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Neural Engine Core Count
16
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NPU Name
16-core Neural Engine
Connectivity
-
Bluetooth Support
Supported
Interfaces and Ports
-
Thunderbolt Support
Thunderbolt 4
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USB Version
USB 4 up to 40Gb/s
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USB4 Support
Supported
Benchmarks
Geekbench 6 Single Core
RTX Spark N1X
2821
Apple M5 10 Cores
4228
+50%
Geekbench 6 Multi Core
RTX Spark N1X
17152
Apple M5 10 Cores
17314
+1%
Cinebench 2024 Single Core
RTX Spark N1X
123
Apple M5 10 Cores
200
+63%
Cinebench 2024 Multi Core
RTX Spark N1X
1386
+35%
Apple M5 10 Cores
1030
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