Apple M5 Pro gets thrashed by Nvidia RTX 5060 Laptop in OpenCL benchmark despite impressive generational improvements

[Redaktion]

Apple's M5 Pro GPU has arrived on Geekbench, revealing promising performance improvements over its predecessors. The OpenCL performance continues to be quite disappointing, however, with the RTX 5060 Laptop GPU pulling well ahead in the test.

https://www.notebookcheck.net/Apple-M5-Pro-gets-thrashed-by-Nvidia-RTX-5060-Laptop-in-OpenCL-benchmark-despite-impressive-generational-improvements.1244783.0.html

[Bestham]

The real advantage with these machines is not so much raw performance of graphics rendering, but LLM inference. There is no Nvidia 5060 does not have access to 24 or 48 GB memory with 300 + GB/s bandwidth like the the M5 Pro.

[Ye]

Bestham, true, and for prompt processing there might no be even that big of a difference:

Needless to say, Nvidia's GeForce RTX 5060 Laptop has a clear upper hand in the OpenCL test, where the GeForce GPU manages a roughly 13% lead over the M5 Pro.

5060 Laptop' 384 GB/s aren't that much faster either and the M5 256-bit APU makes its 307.2 GB/s (= 256-bit * 9600 MT/s / 1000 / 8) more than up with its much more RAM indeed.

Crazy 3600 pricing for only 8 GB VRAM on the Galaxy Book6 Ultra.