GeForce RTX 5070 Laptop vs Apple M4 Pro GPU (20-core)

We performed a head-to-head comparison of the GeForce RTX 5070 Mobile 8 GB with 36 pipelines and 4608 shaders against the 3 months older Apple M4 Pro GPU (20-core) that utilizes 320 pipelines and 2560 shaders. Here you will find complete details about specs, efficiency, performance tests, and more.

Review

General comparison of performance in games, applications, power efficiency, and other metrics
Gaming
Performance in DirectX, OpenCL, and Vulkan games
Workstation
Perf. in 3D modeling, video editing and rendering apps
AI/ML
Capabilities for machine learning and AI-related tasks
Energy Efficiency
Power consumption efficiency in different scenarios
DeviceFacts Final Score
Overall video card score

Key differences

Key distinctions and advantages of M4 Pro GPU (20-core) over RTX 5070 Mobile
Reasons to consider the GeForce RTX 5070 Laptop
  • Performs significantly better (up to 73%) in 3DMark Steel Nomad Lite
  • 2.9x higher maximum theoretical performance (23.2 vs 8.1 TFLOPS)
  • Supports Nvidia DLSS 4 technology
  • Achieves 92% more points in the GeekBench 6 Compute test (134K vs 70K)
  • Has 41% higher memory bandwidth: 384 vs 273 GB/s
  • Has 80% more shading units (4608 vs 2560)
Reasons to consider the Apple M4 Pro GPU (20-core)
  • Manufactured using a more efficient 3 nm process technology

Gaming Performance

Frame rate comparison across popular AAA titles at different resolutions

Games

FPS Table
Forza Horizon 5
148
95
87
62
-
The Witcher 3
166
140
101
57
-
Counter-Strike 2
242
191
136
79
-
Far Cry 6
128
118
93
57
-
Hogwarts Legacy
98
79
61
34
-
CoD: Modern Warfare III
124
111
80
54
-
Ghost of Tsushima
88
77
59
31
-
Cyberpunk 2077
104
92
60
27
-
Shadow of the Tomb Raider
165
150
113
59
-
Average FPS by Resolution
1080p High 140 -
1080p Ultra 117 -
1440p Ultra 88 -
4K Ultra 51 -
Margin of Error Low Low

Benchmarks

Graphics cards’ performance in recent benchmarking apps

3D Mark

Multiplatform graphics benchmark suite that directly correlates with performance in modern games
Steel Nomad Lite Score
Time Spy 13620 -
Solar Bay 60191 33418
Port Royal 8718 -
Fire Strike 35708 -
Wild Life Extreme 24700 19535
Night Raid 124794 -
Sources: 3DMark [1], [2]

GeekBench 6 OpenCL

GPU test for computational tasks (image processing, photography, computer vision, and ML)
GB6 Compute Score
Background Blur 213.4 img/sec 125.1 img/sec
Face Detection 130.4 img/sec 80 img/sec
Horizon Detection 4.89 Gpixels/sec 2.88 Gpixels/sec
Edge Detection 6.23 Gpixels/sec 4.22 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 7.41 Gpixels/sec 2.98 Gpixels/sec
Feature Matching 1.46 Gpixels/sec 0.8 Gpixels/sec
Stereo Matching 661.9 Gpixels/sec 235 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 19395.6 FPS 9516.1 FPS
API OpenCL OpenCL
Sources: Geekbench [3], [4]

Cinebench 2024 GPU

Hardware benchmark using Maxon's Cinema 4D rendering engine
Cinebench 2024 GPU

Passmark Graphics

Videocard test that focuses on compute shaders, multi-texturing, tessellation, and other features
G3D Mark Score
G2D Mark 895 -
DirectX 11 185 FPS -
DirectX 12 91 FPS -
GPU Compute 7051 Ops/s -
Sources: PassMark [5] – 3607 samples

Blender

Rendering performance test for 3D modeling
Blender GPU
4005.43
Sources: Blender [9], [10] – 440 & 406 samples

Recent User Tests

The latest benchmark tests that have been submitted by users
GeForce RTX 5070 Laptop
DateBenchmarkResult
📘 2026-06-05 (Levi)Geekbench 6 OpenCL141514
📘 2026-04-11 (Cyrus)Geekbench 6 OpenCL131880
Apple M4 Pro GPU (20-core)
No benchmark results yet

Artificial Intelligence Tests

Performance in machine learning and artificial intelligence tasks

GeekBench 6 ML

Tests throughput of AI operations in single, half, and quantized precision
GB6 ML Single Precision
GB6 ML Half Precision
GB6 ML Quantized
Image Classification (SP) 8984 8046
Image Segmentation (HP) 26270 15443
Image Super Resolution (Q) 24606 20807
Face Detection (HP) 48283 30860
Pose Estimation (Q) 98180 56783
Text Classification (SP) 3260 2888
Machine Translation (HP) 5770 6167
Object Detection (SP) 11172 7592
Depth Estimation (Q) 43305 33607
Style Transfer (SP) 165555 126726
Framework ONNX Core ML
Backend DirectML GPU
Sources: Geekbench [9], [10]
Results were compared using different ML frameworks

Specifications

Technical specifications of GeForce RTX 5070 Laptop and Apple M4 Pro GPU (20-core)

General

Vendor Nvidia Apple
Build Discrete Integrated
Released January 7, 2025 October 29, 2024
Case Laptop Laptop
Purpose Gaming Professional
Segment Mid-range Mid-range
Architecture Blackwell 2.0 Apple M GPU
GPU Codename GB206-300 Custom
Rival Equivalent - - GeForce RTX 4060 Laptop
Successor - - Apple M5 Pro GPU (20-core)
Recommended CPU - Intel Core Ultra 7 255HX or above - Apple M4 Pro (14-Core) or above
Used in CPUs - - Apple M4 Pro (14-Core)
Laptop GPU ranking (16th and 38th place)

Graphics Processing Unit

Base Clock 890-1410 MHz (configurable) 500 MHz
Boost Clock 1410-2520 MHz (configurable) 1578 MHz
Shading Units 4608 2560
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 144 160
Render Output Units (ROPs) 48 80
Compute Units (Pipelines) 36 320
Tensor Cores 144 -
Ray-tracing Cores 36 -
L1 Cache 128KB per cluster -
L2 Cache 32MB shared -
Instructions Per Cycle 2 IPC 2 IPC

Raw Performance

Pixel Fill Rate 68-121 GPixel/s 126 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 203-363 GTexel/s 252 GTexel/s
FLOPS (FP32)
13-23.2 TFLOPS

Physical

Interface PCIe 5.0 x16 Custom
TGP 50-125 W (configurable) 26 W
Manufacturing TSMC TSMC
Fabrication Process 4 nm 3 nm
Die Size 181 mm² -
Transistor Count 21.9 billion -
Transistor Density 120.99 MTr/mm² -
Max. Temperature - 100°C

Memory

Memory Type GDDR7 System Shared
Memory Size 8 GB -
Memory Clock 1750 MHz 8533 MHz
Effective Memory Speed 24000 Mbps 15000 Mbps
Bus 128-bit 192-bit
ECC No No
Memory Bandwidth
384 GB/s

API

DirectX 12.2 -
Vulkan 1.4 -
OpenGL 4.6 -
OpenCL 3.0 -
CUDA 12.0 -
Ray Tracing Yes Yes
DLSS DLSS 4 No
DisplayPort 2.1b -

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