Apple M5 GPU (10-Core) vs GeForce RTX 5090

[ VERDICT ] Winner: GeForce RTX 5090 (96/100)

GeForce RTX 5090 leads overall with a score of 96/100 compared to Apple M5 GPU (10-Core) (37/100), offering superior measured performance and technical specifications.

Apple M5 GPU (10-Core)
Apple

Apple M5 GPU (10-Core)

37/100
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GeForce RTX 5090
GeForce

GeForce RTX 5090

96/100
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Benchmark Performance Comparison

Normalized Lab Scores
Benchmark measurements and scores across compared devices
Benchmark Apple M5 GPU (10-Core) GeForce RTX 5090
Efficiency 99.0 Excellent WINNER 48.0 Poor
Gaming 19.0 Poor 100.0 Excellent WINNER

Detailed Technical Specifications

3D Mark

3D Mark specifications comparison
Specification Apple M5 GPU (10-Core) GeForce RTX 5090
Solar Bay 24536 236689
Wild Life Extreme 12278 108751
Fire Strike — 87569
Night Raid — 206648
Port Royal — 38202
Time Spy — 46873

API

API specifications comparison
Specification Apple M5 GPU (10-Core) GeForce RTX 5090
DLSS No DLSS 4
Ray Tracing Yes Yes
CUDA — 12.0
DirectX — 12.2
DisplayPort — 2.1b
OpenCL — 3.0
OpenGL — 4.6
Vulkan — 1.4

GeekBench 6 GPU Compute

GeekBench 6 GPU Compute specifications comparison
Specification Apple M5 GPU (10-Core) GeForce RTX 5090
API Metal OpenCL
Background Blur 155.7 img/sec 333 img/sec
Edge Detection 2.87 Gpixels/sec 33.7 Gpixels/sec
Face Detection 178.1 img/sec 298.5 img/sec
Feature Matching 0.95 Gpixels/sec 2.53 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 5.8 Gpixels/sec 34.5 Gpixels/sec
Horizon Detection 2.22 Gpixels/sec 21.7 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 6579.1 FPS 59146.9 FPS
Stereo Matching 190.7 Gpixels/sec 2850 Gpixels/sec

GeekBench 6 ML

GeekBench 6 ML specifications comparison
Specification Apple M5 GPU (10-Core) GeForce RTX 5090
Backend GPU DirectML
Depth Estimation (Q) 53195 85572
Face Detection (HP) 34387 114685
Framework Core ML ONNX
Image Classification (SP) 6348 18948
Image Segmentation (HP) 16813 55109
Image Super Resolution (Q) 30322 58478
Machine Translation (HP) 5555 8184
Object Detection (SP) 6450 27802
Pose Estimation (Q) 111591 344729
Style Transfer (SP) 82314 687080
Text Classification (SP) 2319 4464

General

General specifications comparison
Specification Apple M5 GPU (10-Core) GeForce RTX 5090
Architecture Apple M GPU Blackwell 2.0
Build Integrated Discrete
Case Laptop Desktop
GPU Codename Custom GB202-300
Purpose Professional Gaming
Qualcomm Equivalent -Adreno X2-90 —
Recommended CPU -Apple M5 (10-Core)or above -Intel Core Ultra 9 285Kor above
Released October 15, 2025 January 7, 2025
Segment Mid-range High-end
Used in CPUs -Apple M5 (10-Core) —
Vendor Apple Nvidia
Launch price (MSRP) — $1999

Graphics Processing Unit

Graphics Processing Unit specifications comparison
Specification Apple M5 GPU (10-Core) GeForce RTX 5090
Boost Clock 1620 MHz 2407 MHz
Compute Units (Pipelines) 160 170
Instructions Per Cycle 2 IPC 2 IPC
Render Output Units (ROPs) 40 176
Shading Units 1280 21760
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 80 680
Base Clock — 2017 MHz
L1 Cache — 128KB per cluster
L2 Cache — 96MB shared
Ray-tracing Cores — 170
Tensor Cores — 680

Memory

Memory specifications comparison
Specification Apple M5 GPU (10-Core) GeForce RTX 5090
Bus 128-bit 512-bit
ECC No No
Memory Clock 9600 MHz 1750 MHz
Memory Type System Shared GDDR7
Effective Memory Speed — 28000 Mbps
Memory Size — 32 GB

Physical

Physical specifications comparison
Specification Apple M5 GPU (10-Core) GeForce RTX 5090
Fabrication Process 3 nm 4 nm
Interface Custom PCIe 5.0 x16
Manufacturing TSMC TSMC
Max. Temperature 100°C —
Transistor Count 28 billion 92.2 billion
Die Size — 750 mm²
TGP — 575 W
Transistor Density — 122.93 MTr/mm²

Raw Performance

Raw Performance specifications comparison
Specification Apple M5 GPU (10-Core) GeForce RTX 5090
Pixel Fill Rate 65 GPixel/s 424 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 130 GTexel/s 1637 GTexel/s

Recent User Tests

Recent User Tests specifications comparison
Specification Apple M5 GPU (10-Core) GeForce RTX 5090
Date Benchmark —
📘 2026-01-03->Rennsport GeekBench —

Games

Games specifications comparison
Specification Apple M5 GPU (10-Core) GeForce RTX 5090
1080p High — 299
1080p Ultra — 254
1440p Ultra — 207
4K Ultra — 125
CoD: Modern Warfare III — 334322260184
Counter-Strike 2 — 36326520299
Cyberpunk 2077 — 26123316077
Far Cry 6 — 237202190121
Forza Horizon 5 — 336247233187
Ghost of Tsushima — 221185175113
Hogwarts Legacy — 24919916697
Margin of Error — Low
Shadow of the Tomb Raider — 329302238128
The Witcher 3 — 364327237123

GeekBench 6 OpenCL

GeekBench 6 OpenCL specifications comparison
Specification Apple M5 GPU (10-Core) GeForce RTX 5090
API Metal OpenCL
Background Blur 155.7 img/sec 333 img/sec
Edge Detection 2.87 Gpixels/sec 33.7 Gpixels/sec
Face Detection 178.1 img/sec 298.5 img/sec
Feature Matching 0.95 Gpixels/sec 2.53 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 5.8 Gpixels/sec 34.5 Gpixels/sec
Horizon Detection 2.22 Gpixels/sec 21.7 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 6579.1 FPS 59146.9 FPS
Stereo Matching 190.7 Gpixels/sec 2850 Gpixels/sec

Passmark Graphics

Passmark Graphics specifications comparison
Specification Apple M5 GPU (10-Core) GeForce RTX 5090
DirectX 11 — 341 FPS
DirectX 12 — 179 FPS
G2D Mark — 1410
GPU Compute — 24360 Ops/s

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