Apple M1 Pro 14-core vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 Mobile

Comparative analysis of Apple M1 Pro 14-core and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 Mobile videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Memory, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: Geekbench - OpenCL, GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark, 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

Apple M1 Pro 14-core

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 Mobile

Differences

Reasons to consider the Apple M1 Pro 14-core

7.7x lower typical power consumption: 15 Watt vs 115 Watt

Thermal Design Power (TDP)	15 Watt vs 115 Watt

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 Mobile

Videocard is newer: launch date 3 year(s) 3 month(s) later
Around 12% higher core clock speed: 1455 MHz vs 1296 MHz
182.9x more pipelines: 2560 vs 14
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 4 nm vs 5 nm
Around 87% better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 74418 vs 39868

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	2023 vs 26 Oct 2021
Core clock speed	1455 MHz vs 1296 MHz
Pipelines	2560 vs 14
Manufacturing process technology	4 nm vs 5 nm
Benchmarks
Geekbench - OpenCL	74418 vs 39868

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: Apple M1 Pro 14-core
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 Mobile

Geekbench - OpenCL

GPU 1

GPU 2

39868

74418

Name	Apple M1 Pro 14-core	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 Mobile
Geekbench - OpenCL	39868	74418
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	20379
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	20379
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	7440
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	7440
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	6721
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	6721
PassMark - G2D Mark		628
PassMark - G3D Mark		14437
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score		1788

Compare specifications (specs)

	Apple M1 Pro 14-core	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 Mobile
Essentials
Launch date	26 Oct 2021	2023
Place in performance rating	164	163
Architecture		Ada Lovelace
Code name		AD107
Technical info
Core clock speed	1296 MHz	1455 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	5 nm	4 nm
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance	4.644 TFLOPS	8.986 TFLOPS
Pipelines	14	2560
Render output units	56
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	15 Watt	115 Watt
Boost clock speed		1755 MHz
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance		140.4 GFLOPS (1:64)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance		8.986 TFLOPS (1:1)
Pixel fill rate		56.16 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate		140.4 GTexel/s
Memory
Memory bandwidth	204.8 GB/s	192.0 GB/s
Memory bus width	256 bit	96 bit
Memory type	LPDDR5-6400	GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount		6 GB
Memory clock speed		2000 MHz, 16 Gbps effective
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors		Portable Device Dependent
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Form factor		IGP
Interface		PCIe 4.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors		None
API support
DirectX		12 Ultimate (12_2)
OpenCL		3.0
OpenGL		4.6
Shader Model		6.7
Vulkan