Apple M5 Max 40-Core GPU vs GeForce RTX 5080 Mobile

Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the ranking	39	52
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Power efficiency	61.03	no data
Architecture	Blackwell 2.0 (2025−2026)	no data
GPU code name	GB203	no data
Market segment	Laptop	Laptop
Release date	2 April 2025 (1 year ago)	3 March 2026 (less than a year ago)

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores	7680	40
Core clock speed	975 MHz	no data
Boost clock speed	1500 MHz	no data
Number of transistors	45,600 million	no data
Manufacturing process technology	5 nm	no data
Power consumption (TDP)	80 Watt	no data
Texture fill rate	360.0	no data
Floating-point processing power	23.04 TFLOPS	no data
ROPs	96	no data
TMUs	240	no data
Tensor Cores	240	no data
Ray Tracing Cores	60	no data
L1 Cache	7.5 MB	no data
L2 Cache	48 MB	no data

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

Laptop size	large	no data
Interface	PCIe 5.0 x16	no data

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory type	GDDR7	LPDDR5x-8533
Maximum RAM amount	16 GB	no data
Memory bus width	256 Bit	no data
Memory clock speed	1750 MHz	no data
Memory bandwidth	896.0 GB/s	no data
Shared memory	-	no data
Resizable BAR	+	-

Connectivity and outputs

This section shows the types and number of video connectors on each GPU. The data applies specifically to desktop reference models (for example, NVIDIA’s Founders Edition). OEM partners often modify both the number and types of ports. On notebook GPUs, video‐output options are determined by the laptop’s design rather than the graphics chip itself.

Display Connectors

Portable Device Dependent

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API and SDK support

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX	12 Ultimate (12_2)	no data
Shader Model	6.9	no data
OpenGL	4.6	no data
OpenCL	3.0	no data
Vulkan	1.4	-
CUDA	12.0	-
DLSS	+	-

Gaming performance

Let's see how good the compared graphics cards are for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in FPS.

Average FPS across all PC games

Here are the average frames per second in a large set of popular games across different resolutions:

Full HD	146 +36.4%	107 −36.4%
1440p	95 +58.3%	60 −58.3%
4K	57 +50%	38 −50%

FPS performance in popular games

Pros & cons summary

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Recency

2 April 2025

3 March 2026