Nvidia N1X far behind Apple M5 Max: comparable chips show expected performance

[Redaktion]

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

[tmz]

sorry, it is no fact.

[sorry, could be fact]

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".

sorry, it is no fact.

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

The 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.

[M2026]

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

[Tosser]

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..

[Satwik]

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

Yeah why not, after all the price of N1X laptop is almost equivalent to M5 Max, it should compete to M5 Max, people will not buy a laptop which is similarly priced and is falling short by 50% from laptop at its same price range.

[Do facts matter?]

Yeah why not, after all the price of N1X laptop is almost equivalent to M5 Max, it should compete to M5 Max, people will not buy a laptop which is similarly priced and is falling short by 50% from laptop at its same price range.

You'd be surprised how many dislike macOS. It may fall 50% below the best in the Mac ecosystem but it's comparable to what's currently available in Windows ecosystem. Also this is a synthetic benchmark, in real world usage, like gaming it's the complete opposite.

People keep comparing these to MBPs but what I think this is going to cannibalise is Nvidia's own laptop dgpu sales. Who's going to want a hot, noisey loud running, 1 hr battery life when gaming is dgpu laptop - when for the same price or slightly more you can get this which is substantially better in every metric.

This is an even bigger threat to intel and AMD on mobile because let's face it, what sells their x86 mobile cpus on laptop isn't their igpus but the Nvidia dgpu sticker. And now Nvidia is beginning to bypass them both, without needing their cpus.