Apple A12X Bionic vs NVIDIA GeForce3

Comparative analysis of Apple A12X Bionic and NVIDIA GeForce3 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: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark.

Apple A12X Bionic

NVIDIA GeForce3

Differences

Reasons to consider the Apple A12X Bionic

Videocard is newer: launch date 17 year(s) 8 month(s) later
5.6x more core clock speed: 1125 MHz vs 200 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 7 nm vs 150 nm

Launch date	7 Nov 2018 vs 27 February 2001
Core clock speed	1125 MHz vs 200 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	7 nm vs 150 nm

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: Apple A12X Bionic
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce3

Name	Apple A12X Bionic	NVIDIA GeForce3
PassMark - G3D Mark		5
PassMark - G2D Mark		120

Compare specifications (specs)

	Apple A12X Bionic	NVIDIA GeForce3
Essentials
Launch date	7 Nov 2018	27 February 2001
Place in performance rating	not rated	1307
Architecture		Kelvin
Code name		NV20 A5
Launch price (MSRP)		$499
Type		Desktop
Technical info
Core clock speed	1125 MHz	200 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	7 nm	150 nm
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance	1.008 TFLOPS
Pipelines	7
Render output units	28
Texture fill rate		1.6 GTexel / s
Transistor count		57 million
Memory
Memory bandwidth	68.2 GB/s	3.68 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 bit	128 Bit
Memory type	LPDDR4X-4266	SDR
Maximum RAM amount		64 MB
Memory clock speed		230 MHz
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors		1x VGA, 1x DB13W3
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface		AGP 4x
Length		165 mm
Supplementary power connectors		None
API support
DirectX		8.0
OpenGL		1.3