Apple M1 Max batte GeForce RTX 3080 GPU per laptop in GFXBench 5.0, but Doesn’t Shine in Geekbench

This should be taken with a fair helping of salt, considering GFXBench 5.0 is mobile device focused benchmark, even though the company behind claims it’s a platform independent benchmark. Regardless of that, it looks like the new 32 core GPU in Apple’s M1 Max SoC offers some pretty competitive performance, as it manages GeForce RTX 3080 Laptop GPU in said test.

Tuttavia, this is a median score for the GeForce RTX 3080 Laptop GPU and many of the tests that make up GFXBench 5.0 aren’t using DirectX, which is one likely reason for Apple’s M1 Max GPU beating the Nvidia card. D'altra parte, all tests seem to support Metal, which is Apple’s 3D API, whereas the Nvidia card has to fall back to using OpenGL which tends to offer lower performance than DirectX in games. In most of the tests we’re looking at an average performance advantage of less than 10 percent in favour of Apple, but it’s nonetheless impressive considering that Apple hasn’t been in the GPU business for very long.

D'altra parte, in a Geekbench OpenCL test, the M1 Max is losing out against a GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop GPU by quite some margin depending on the test. Neither is of course a real world scenario and we’re going to wait a little while longer to see how well Apple’s new SoCs really performs and more importantly, what the limitations are in terms of software compatibility.