Apple M6 12 Cores
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NVIDIA RTX Spark N1X

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CPU Comparison Result

Below are the results of a comparison of Apple M6 12 Cores and NVIDIA RTX Spark N1X processors based on key performance characteristics, as well as power consumption and much more.

Advantages

  • Higher Technology: 2 nm (2 nm vs 3 nm)
  • More Total Cores: 20 (12 vs 20)
  • Higher Memory Type: LPDDR5X unified memory (Unified memory vs LPDDR5X unified memory)

Basic

Apple
Label Name
NVIDIA
August 2026
Launch Date
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Laptop
Platform
Laptop
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CPU Architecture
Arm
Apple M6
CPU Name
NVIDIA Grace CPU
Apple M6 12 Cores
Model Name
NVIDIA RTX Spark N1X
TSMC N2
Foundry
TSMC
M6
Generation
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OS Support
Windows 11

CPU Specifications

4.61 GHz
Performance-core Multi-Core Max Frequency
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4.80 GHz
Super-core Max Frequency
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12
Total Cores
Cores is a hardware term that describes the number of independent central processing units in a single computing component (die or chip).
20
12
Total Threads
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4
Performance-cores
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6
Efficient-cores
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2
Super-cores
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3.20 GHz
Efficient-core Max Turbo Frequency
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2 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.
3 nm
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Transistor Count
70 billion

Memory Specifications

Unified memory
Memory Type
LPDDR5X unified memory
10667 MT/s
LPDDR5 Speed
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32 GB
Max Memory Size
Max memory size refers to the maximum memory capacity supported by the processor.
128 GB
170 GB/s
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).
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GPU Specifications

DisplayPort 1.4 over Thunderbolt 4; HDMI
External Display Standard
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Apple M6 12-core GPU
GPU Name
NVIDIA Blackwell RTX GPU
Supported
Hardware-accelerated ray tracing
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Up to 8K at 60Hz or 5K at 120Hz or 4K at 240Hz
Max External Display Resolution
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H.264, HEVC, ProRes, ProRes RAW, AV1
Video Decode
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H.264, HEVC, ProRes, ProRes RAW
Video Encode
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12
Graphics Core Count
6144
Up to 8K at 60Hz or 5K at 120Hz or 4K at 240Hz
Max Resolution
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3
Number of Displays Supported
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Hardware-accelerated H.264, HEVC, ProRes and ProRes RAW; AV1 decode
Media Engine
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1
Video Decode Engines
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1
Video Encode Engines
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1
ProRes Encode/Decode Engines
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AI Specifications

Dual 16-core Neural Engine; Neural Accelerators in each GPU core
AI Engine
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32
Neural Engine Core Count
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Dual 16-core Neural Engine
NPU Name
-

Interfaces and Ports

Thunderbolt 4
Thunderbolt Support
-
Supported
USB4 Support
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Benchmarks

Geekbench 6 Single Core
Apple M6 12 Cores
4698 +67%
RTX Spark N1X
2821
Geekbench 6 Multi Core
Apple M6 12 Cores
21302 +24%
RTX Spark N1X
17152
Cinebench 2024 Single Core
Apple M6 12 Cores
221 +80%
RTX Spark N1X
123
Cinebench 2024 Multi Core
Apple M6 12 Cores
1468 +6%
RTX Spark N1X
1386