Post reply

The message has the following error or errors that must be corrected before continuing:: Warning - while you were reading a new reply has been posted. You may wish to review your post.

Name
Email
Subject
Message icon

Other options

Return to this topic
Don't use smileys

Verification:

Please leave this box empty:

Shortcuts: ALT+S post or ALT+P preview

Topic summary

Posted by Tosser

- Today at 00:47:46

The GPU part of M5 max is 40 cores, the CPU is 18 (6 super + 12 performance cores).

It's not all that surprising when you consider it's using an almost 2 year generic arm core vs latest custom arm core of apple.

Then again, by the time spark ships it will be competing against M6..

Posted by M2026

- Yesterday at 23:30:45

"CPU far behind ARM competition"
Really? A 40-core CPU is only 48% faster, than the 20-core CPU? lol

Posted by sorry, could be fact

- Yesterday at 21:27:55

The Videocardz source states ".. @ 16ch", as if everyone knows that this means. For devices based on DDR4 and DDR5 memory, not LPDDR, it's equal to quad (or 4ch) channel (4 * 64-bit). Videocardz should simply state "@ 256-bit".

Quote from: tmz on Yesterday at 19:51:49sorry, it is no fact.

sorry, it could be fact (click on Quote for full text):

Quote from: sus on June 01, 2026, 12:39:00The 3 nm TSMC node + 6,144 CUDA cores might show, to a certain degree, that this Spark is faster than what 273 GB/s would suggest. Let's say it's 15-30% faster than that, that's 5060 Laptop ("Average score: 2632") to 5070 Laptop ("Average score: 3005") performance, not bad and it aligns with performance rumors.

Posted by tmz

- Yesterday at 19:51:49

sorry, it is no fact.

Posted by Redaktion

- Yesterday at 18:02:48

The Nvidia RTX Spark is intended to compete directly with the Apple M5 Max, as the 80-watt ARM chip promises extreme performance with 20 processor cores and a "1 petaflop GPU". Benchmarks show that Nvidia's marketing should be viewed with caution.

https://www.notebookcheck.net/Nvidia-N1X-far-behind-Apple-M5-Max-comparable-chips-show-expected-performance.1313665.0.html