Apple M3 Pro 14-Core GPU vs NVIDIA T550 Laptop GPU
Apple M3 Pro 14-Core GPU ► remove from comparison
The Apple M3 Pro 14-Core GPU is a self-designed graphics card in the Apple M3 Pro (with 11 CPU cores) and offers fourteen of the eighteen cores available on the chip. The graphics card uses a new architecture and now offers dynamic caching, mesh shading and ray tracing acceleration.
The GPU can access up to 24 GB LPDDR5-6400 unified memory via a 192-bit memory bus (max 150 GBit/s). Thanks to dynamic caching, the GPU only reserves as much memory as is required.
The entire chip is manufactured in the current 3nm process (probably N3B) at TSMC.
NVIDIA T550 Laptop GPU ► remove from comparison
The Nvidia T550 Laptop GPU (formerly known as Quadro T550 Mobile) for laptops is a professional mobile graphics card that is based on the Turing architecture (TU117 chip). It is based on the consumer GeForce MX550 and features the same 1024 cores and a 64 Bit memory bus. The card offers 4 GB GDDR6 with a maximum bandwidth of 112 GB/s and no dedicated display outputs (iGPU display outputs used via Optimus). The chip is manufactured in 12nm FinFET at TSMC.
The professional GPUs offer certified drivers , which are optimized for stability and performance in professional applications (CAD, DCC, medical, prospection, and visualizing applications). The performance in these areas is therefore much better compared to corresponding consumer GPUs.
The Turing generation did not only introduce raytracing for the RTX cards, but also optimized the architecture of the cores and caches. According to Nvidia the CUDA cores offer now a concurrent execution of floating point and integer operations for increased performance in compute-heavy workloads of modern games. Furthermore, the caches were reworked (new unified memory architecture with twice the cache compared to Pascal). This leads to up to 50% more instructions per clock and a 40% more power efficient usage compared to Pascal. In contrary to the faster Quadro RTX cards, the T550 does not feature raytracing and Tensor cores.
Apple M3 Pro 14-Core GPU NVIDIA T550 Laptop GPU Quadro Turing Series Pipelines 14 - unified 1024 - unified Memory Type LPDDR5-6400 GDDR5, GDDR6 Shared Memory no no technology 5 nm 12 nm Notebook Size medium sized medium sized Date of Announcement 31.10.2023 27.05.2022 Codename TU117 Architecture Turing Core Speed 1065 - 1665 (Boost) MHz Theoretical Performance 7.2 TFLOPS FP16, 3.7 TFLOPS FP32 Memory Speed 12000 effective = 1500 MHz Memory Bus Width 64 Bit Max. Amount of Memory 4 GB Memory Bandwidth 112 GB/s API DirectX 12_1, Shader 6.7, OpenGL 4.6 Power Consumption 25 Watt (20 - 60 Watt TGP) Information Optimus only Link to Manufacturer Page nvdam.widen.net
CPU in M3 Pro 14-Core GPU GPU Base Speed GPU Boost / Turbo Apple M3 Pro 11-Core 11 x 2748 MHz, 27 W ? MHz ? MHz
Benchmarks 3DMark - 3DMark Time Spy Score
min: 2031 avg: 2187 median: 2066 (6%) max: 2465 Points
GPU TDP 20 W TDP 30 W 83% 100%
3DMark - 3DMark Time Spy Graphics
min: 1882 avg: 2021 median: 1928 (5%) max: 2252 Points
GPU TDP 20 W TDP 30 W 85% 100%
3DMark - 3DMark Cloud Gate Score
min: 17399 avg: 17614 median: 17614 (19%) max: 17829 Points
3DMark - 3DMark Cloud Gate Graphics
min: 32743 avg: 33219 median: 33218.5 (9%) max: 33694 Points
3DMark - 3DMark Fire Strike Standard Score
min: 4559 avg: 4786 median: 4581 (8%) max: 5218 Points
GPU TDP 20 W TDP 30 W 88% 100%
3DMark - 3DMark Fire Strike Standard Graphics
min: 4816 avg: 5100 median: 4890 (6%) max: 5593 Points
GPU TDP 20 W TDP 30 W 87% 100%
3DMark - 3DMark Wild Life Extreme Unlimited
12094 Points (14%)
min: 3530 avg: 3590 median: 3589.5 (4%) max: 3649 Points
GPU TDP 20 W TDP 24 W 30% 100%
3DMark 11 - 3DM11 Performance Score
min: 7405 avg: 8160 median: 8160 (11%) max: 8915 Points
GPU TDP 20 W TDP 30 W 83% 100%
3DMark 11 - 3DM11 Performance GPU
min: 7432 avg: 8067 median: 8066.5 (7%) max: 8701 Points
GPU TDP 20 W TDP 30 W 85% 100%
3DMark Vantage 3DM Vant. Perf. total + NVIDIA T550 Laptop GPU 3DMark Vantage - 3DM Vant. Perf. total
25155 Points (7%)
3DM Vant. Perf. GPU no PhysX + NVIDIA T550 Laptop GPU 3DMark Vantage - 3DM Vant. Perf. GPU no PhysX
24697 Points (14%)
3DMark 06 3DMark 06 - Standard 1280x1024 + NVIDIA T550 Laptop GPU
31003 Points (41%)
Blender - Blender 3.3 Classroom CUDA *
min: 278 avg: 282 median: 283 (42%) max: 285 Seconds
GPU TDP 20 W TDP 30 W 100% 102%
Blender - Blender 3.3 Classroom OPTIX *
min: 256 avg: 263.3 median: 265 (99%) max: 269 Seconds
GPU TDP 20 W TDP 30 W 100% 650%
Blender - Blender 3.3 Classroom METAL *
73 Seconds (8%)
SPECviewperf 13 specvp13 sw-04 + NVIDIA T550 Laptop GPU SPECviewperf 13 - specvp13 sw-04
min: 95 avg: 98.8 median: 95.8 (26%) max: 105.68 fps
GPU TDP 20 W TDP 30 W 90% 100%
specvp13 snx-03 + NVIDIA T550 Laptop GPU SPECviewperf 13 - specvp13 snx-03
min: 95.8 avg: 101.7 median: 99.7 (11%) max: 109.67 fps
GPU TDP 20 W TDP 30 W 89% 100%
specvp13 showcase-02 + NVIDIA T550 Laptop GPU SPECviewperf 13 - specvp13 showcase-02
min: 24.8 avg: 26.1 median: 25.3 (6%) max: 28.06 fps
GPU TDP 20 W TDP 30 W 89% 100%
specvp13 medical-02 + NVIDIA T550 Laptop GPU SPECviewperf 13 - specvp13 medical-02
min: 34.5 avg: 37.2 median: 36.2 (8%) max: 40.74 fps
GPU TDP 20 W TDP 30 W 87% 100%
specvp13 maya-05 + NVIDIA T550 Laptop GPU SPECviewperf 13 - specvp13 maya-05
min: 77.5 avg: 82 median: 80.9 (9%) max: 87.57 fps
GPU TDP 20 W TDP 30 W 90% 100%
specvp13 energy-02 + NVIDIA T550 Laptop GPU SPECviewperf 13 - specvp13 energy-02
min: 11.7 avg: 12.4 median: 12 (4%) max: 13.37 fps
GPU TDP 20 W TDP 30 W 89% 100%
specvp13 creo-02 + NVIDIA T550 Laptop GPU SPECviewperf 13 - specvp13 creo-02
min: 82.4 avg: 86.2 median: 85.5 (13%) max: 90.66 fps
GPU TDP 20 W TDP 30 W 93% 100%
specvp13 catia-05 + NVIDIA T550 Laptop GPU SPECviewperf 13 - specvp13 catia-05
min: 104 avg: 110.4 median: 109 (12%) max: 118.22 fps
GPU TDP 20 W TDP 30 W 90% 100%
specvp13 3dsmax-06 + NVIDIA T550 Laptop GPU SPECviewperf 13 - specvp13 3dsmax-06
min: 61.6 avg: 63.7 median: 63 (11%) max: 66.38 fps
GPU TDP 20 W TDP 30 W 94% 100%
SPECviewperf 2020 specvp2020 solidworks-05 1080p + NVIDIA T550 Laptop GPU SPECviewperf 2020 - specvp2020 solidworks-05 1080p
min: 46.3 avg: 54 median: 54.3 (11%) max: 61.38 fps
GPU TDP 20 W TDP 30 W 82% 100%
specvp2020 snx-04 1080p + NVIDIA T550 Laptop GPU SPECviewperf 2020 - specvp2020 snx-04 1080p
min: 84 avg: 99.4 median: 99.3 (16%) max: 114.82 fps
GPU TDP 20 W TDP 30 W 80% 100%
specvp2020 medical-03 1080p + NVIDIA T550 Laptop GPU SPECviewperf 2020 - specvp2020 medical-03 1080p
min: 13.5 avg: 15.6 median: 15.4 (11%) max: 17.87 fps
GPU TDP 20 W TDP 30 W 81% 100%
specvp2020 maya-06 1080p + NVIDIA T550 Laptop GPU SPECviewperf 2020 - specvp2020 maya-06 1080p
min: 86.9 avg: 98.2 median: 98.1 (14%) max: 109.68 fps
GPU TDP 20 W TDP 30 W 84% 100%
specvp2020 energy-03 1080p + NVIDIA T550 Laptop GPU SPECviewperf 2020 - specvp2020 energy-03 1080p
min: 10.6 avg: 12.1 median: 12 (10%) max: 13.56 fps
GPU TDP 20 W TDP 30 W 83% 100%
specvp2020 creo-03 1080p + NVIDIA T550 Laptop GPU SPECviewperf 2020 - specvp2020 creo-03 1080p
min: 44.5 avg: 46.2 median: 45.7 (23%) max: 48.5 fps
GPU TDP 20 W TDP 30 W 100% 98%
specvp2020 catia-06 1080p + NVIDIA T550 Laptop GPU SPECviewperf 2020 - specvp2020 catia-06 1080p
min: 22.4 avg: 25.6 median: 24.9 (16%) max: 29.58 fps
GPU TDP 20 W TDP 30 W 80% 100%
specvp2020 3dsmax-07 1080p + NVIDIA T550 Laptop GPU SPECviewperf 2020 - specvp2020 3dsmax-07 1080p
min: 28.3 avg: 30 median: 29.6 (13%) max: 32.03 fps
GPU TDP 20 W TDP 30 W 90% 100%
Cinebench R15 Cinebench R15 OpenGL 64 Bit + Apple M3 Pro 14-Core GPU Cinebench R15 - Cinebench R15 OpenGL 64 Bit
129.9 fps (8%)
Cinebench R15 OpenGL 64 Bit + NVIDIA T550 Laptop GPU
min: 184.9 avg: 193 median: 189.2 (11%) max: 205 fps
GPU TDP 20 W TDP 24 W TDP 30 W 91% 63% 100%
Cinebench R15 OpenGL Ref. Match 64 Bit + Apple M3 Pro 14-Core GPU Cinebench R15 - Cinebench R15 OpenGL Ref. Match 64 Bit
99.5 % (100%)
Cinebench R15 OpenGL Ref. Match 64 Bit + NVIDIA T550 Laptop GPU
99.6 % (100%)
GPU TDP 20 W TDP 24 W TDP 30 W 100% 100% 100%
GFXBench - GFXBench 5.0 4K Aztec Ruins High Tier Offscreen
79 fps (32%)
GFXBench - GFXBench 5.0 Aztec Ruins High Tier Offscreen
178.7 fps (32%)
19 fps (3%)
GPU TDP 20 W TDP 24 W 11% 100%
GFXBench - GFXBench 5.0 Aztec Ruins Normal Tier Offscreen
481.9 fps (36%)
43.5 fps (3%)
GPU TDP 20 W TDP 24 W 9% 100%
GFXBench - GFXBench Car Chase Offscreen
376.3 fps (42%)
118.3 fps (13%)
GPU TDP 20 W TDP 24 W 31% 100%
GFXBench 3.1 - GFXBench Manhattan ES 3.1 Offscreen
565 fps (12%)
172.6 fps (4%)
GPU TDP 20 W TDP 24 W 31% 100%
GFXBench 3.0 - GFXBench 3.0 Manhattan Offscreen
818 fps (48%)
229.9 fps (13%)
GPU TDP 20 W TDP 24 W 28% 100%
GFXBench (DX / GLBenchmark) 2.7 GFXBench T-Rex HD Offscreen C24Z16 + Apple M3 Pro 14-Core GPU GFXBench (DX / GLBenchmark) 2.7 - GFXBench T-Rex HD Offscreen C24Z16
1299 fps (10%)
GFXBench T-Rex HD Offscreen C24Z16 + NVIDIA T550 Laptop GPU
449.9 fps (4%)
GPU TDP 20 W TDP 24 W 35% 100%
Geekbench 6.2 - Geekbench 6.2 GPU OpenCL
42798 Points (12%)
Geekbench 6.2 - Geekbench 6.2 GPU Metal
68043 Points (44%)
ComputeMark v2.1 - ComputeMark v2.1 Result
5190 Points (6%)
Power Consumption - Furmark Stress Test Power Consumption - external Monitor *
min: 34.2 avg: 34.7 median: 34.7 (5%) max: 35.1 Watt
Power Consumption - The Witcher 3 Power Consumption - external Monitor *
32.8 Watt (5%)
min: 41.2 avg: 41.3 median: 41.3 (6%) max: 41.4 Watt
GPU TDP 20 W TDP 24 W 100% 101%
Power Consumption - Witcher 3 Power Consumption *
42.8 Watt (9%)
min: 42.9 avg: 44.1 median: 44.1 (10%) max: 45.3 Watt
GPU TDP 20 W TDP 24 W 100% 100%
Power Consumption - Witcher 3 ultra Power Efficiency
0.9 fps per Watt (82%)
min: 0.4393 avg: 0.4 median: 0.4 (40%) max: 0.4569 fps per Watt
GPU TDP 20 W TDP 24 W 49% 100%
Power Consumption - Witcher 3 ultra Power Efficiency - external Monitor
min: 1.189 avg: 1.2 median: 1.2 (99%) max: 1.207 fps per Watt
min: 0.4734 avg: 0.5 median: 0.5 (40%) max: 0.483 fps per Watt
GPU TDP 20 W TDP 24 W 40% 100%
Emissions Witcher 3 Fan Noise + Apple M3 Pro 14-Core GPU Emissions - Witcher 3 Fan Noise
25.1 dB(A) (40%)
Witcher 3 Fan Noise + NVIDIA T550 Laptop GPU
min: 38.2 avg: 40.4 median: 40.5 (65%) max: 42.5 dB(A)
GPU TDP 20 W TDP 24 W TDP 30 W 93% 59% 100%
Average Benchmarks Apple M3 Pro 14-Core GPU → 100% n=9 Average Benchmarks NVIDIA T550 Laptop GPU → 47% n=9
- Range of benchmark values for this graphics card
- Average benchmark values for this graphics card
* Smaller numbers mean a higher performance
1 This benchmark is not used for the average calculation
Game Benchmarks The following benchmarks stem from our benchmarks of review laptops. The performance depends on the used graphics memory, clock rate, processor, system settings, drivers, and operating systems. So the results don't have to be representative for all laptops with this GPU. For detailed information on the benchmark results, click on the fps number.
100%
M3 Pro 14-Core GPU:
193 fps
100%
M3 Pro 14-Core GPU:
125 fps
100%
M3 Pro 14-Core GPU:
67 fps
100%
M3 Pro 14-Core GPU:
53 fps
100%
M3 Pro 14-Core GPU:
35 fps
100%
M3 Pro 14-Core GPU:
42 fps
100%
M3 Pro 14-Core GPU:
39 fps
100%
M3 Pro 14-Core GPU:
75 fps
100%
M3 Pro 14-Core GPU:
49.5 fps
100%
M3 Pro 14-Core GPU:
35.9 fps
100%
M3 Pro 14-Core GPU:
22.5 fps
100%
M3 Pro 14-Core GPU:
66 fps
100%
M3 Pro 14-Core GPU:
60 fps
100%
M3 Pro 14-Core GPU:
53 fps
100%
M3 Pro 14-Core GPU:
34 fps
T550 Laptop GPU:
73 75 78 ~ 75 fps
T550 Laptop GPU:
39 40 43 ~ 41 fps
100%
M3 Pro 14-Core GPU:
39 fps
100%
M3 Pro 14-Core GPU:
79 fps
100%
M3 Pro 14-Core GPU:
50 fps
Average Gaming Apple M3 Pro 14-Core GPU → 100% Average Gaming 30-70 fps → 100%
Average Gaming NVIDIA T550 Laptop GPU → 63% Average Gaming 30-70 fps → 78%
Apple M3 Pro 14-Core GPU low med. high ultra QHD 4K Total War Pharaoh 193 125 67 53 35 Baldur's Gate 3 42 39 Total War: Three Kingdoms 75 49.5 35.9 22.5 Shadow of the Tomb Raider 66 60 53 34 The Witcher 3 39 GTA V 79 50 < 30 fps < 60 fps < 120 fps ≥ 120 fps 1 2 1 2 3 6 1 2
NVIDIA T550 Laptop GPU low med. high ultra QHD 4K F1 22 69 62 43 31 F1 2021 153 74 59 37 Strange Brigade 131 52 42 36 Far Cry 5 75 41 38 35 X-Plane 11.11 70 63 57 Final Fantasy XV Benchmark 62 31 22 Dota 2 Reborn 117 105 95 88 The Witcher 3 128 75 41 21 GTA V 116 114 62 29 < 30 fps < 60 fps < 120 fps ≥ 120 fps 6 3 3 6 1 6 2 2 4 1
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