GeForce RTX 5050 vs Apple M1 Pro 14-Core GPU

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Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot ratednot rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Architectureno dataBlackwell 2.0 (2025)
GPU code nameno dataGB207
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date10 November 2020 (4 years ago)2025

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 cores142560
Core clock speed1296 MHz2235 MHz
Boost clock speedno data2520 MHz
Manufacturing process technology5 nm0 nm
Power consumption (TDP)15 Watt100 Watt
Texture fill rateno data201.6
Floating-point processing powerno data12.9 TFLOPS
ROPsno data32
TMUsno data80
Tensor Coresno data80
Ray Tracing Coresno data20

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).

Interfaceno dataPCIe 5.0 x16
Widthno data2-slot
Supplementary power connectorsno data1x 16-pin

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 typeLPDDR5-6400GDDR6
Maximum RAM amountno data8 GB
Memory bus widthno data128 Bit
Memory clock speedno data1750 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data224.0 GB/s
Shared memory+-

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectorsno data1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a
HDMI-+

API compatibility

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

DirectXno data12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Modelno data6.7
OpenGLno data4.6
OpenCLno data3.0
Vulkan-1.3
CUDA-9.1

Pros & cons summary


Power consumption (TDP) 15 Watt 100 Watt

Apple M1 Pro 14-Core GPU has 566.7% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between M1 Pro 14-Core GPU and GeForce RTX 5050. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Apple M1 Pro 14-Core GPU is a notebook card while GeForce RTX 5050 is a desktop one.


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Apple M1 Pro 14-Core GPU
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