Apple A12Z Bionic vs AMD FirePro M2000

Comparative analysis of Apple A12Z Bionic and AMD FirePro M2000 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, PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

Apple A12Z Bionic

AMD FirePro M2000

Differences

Reasons to consider the Apple A12Z Bionic

Videocard is newer: launch date 7 year(s) 8 month(s) later
2.3x more core clock speed: 1125 MHz vs 500 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 7 nm vs 40 nm
8.6x better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 10076 vs 1168

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	25 Mar 2020 vs 1 July 2012
Core clock speed	1125 MHz vs 500 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	7 nm vs 40 nm
Benchmarks
Geekbench - OpenCL	10076 vs 1168

Reasons to consider the AMD FirePro M2000

60x more pipelines: 480 vs 8

Pipelines	480 vs 8

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: Apple A12Z Bionic
GPU 2: AMD FirePro M2000

Geekbench - OpenCL

GPU 1

GPU 2

10076

1168

Name	Apple A12Z Bionic	AMD FirePro M2000
Geekbench - OpenCL	10076	1168
PassMark - G3D Mark		425
PassMark - G2D Mark		206
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)		3.284
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)		195.801
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)		0.31
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)		10.402
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)		44.254
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)		544
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)		1498
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		1709
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)		544
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)		1498
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		1709

Compare specifications (specs)

	Apple A12Z Bionic	AMD FirePro M2000
Essentials
Launch date	25 Mar 2020	1 July 2012
Place in performance rating	1495	1497
Architecture		TeraScale 2
Code name		Turks
Type		Mobile workstation
Technical info
Core clock speed	1125 MHz	500 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	7 nm	40 nm
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance	1.152 TFLOPS
Pipelines	8	480
Render output units	32
Floating-point performance		480.0 gflops
Texture fill rate		12 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)		33 Watt
Transistor count		716 million
Memory
Memory bandwidth	68.2 GB/s	25.6 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 bit	64 Bit
Memory type	LPDDR4X-4266	GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount		1 GB
Memory clock speed		3200 MHz
Shared memory		0
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors		No outputs
StereoOutput3D
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Bus support		n / a
Form factor		chip-down
Interface		PCIe 2.0 x16
Laptop size		medium sized
API support
DirectX		11.2 (11_0)
OpenGL		4.4