Apple A12Z Bionic vs NVIDIA GeForce 9700M GTS

Comparative analysis of Apple A12Z Bionic and NVIDIA GeForce 9700M GTS videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Memory, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: Geekbench - OpenCL, PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

Apple A12Z Bionic

NVIDIA GeForce 9700M GTS

Differences

Reasons to consider the Apple A12Z Bionic

Videocard is newer: launch date 11 year(s) 7 month(s) later
2.1x more core clock speed: 1125 MHz vs 530 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 7 nm vs 65 nm

Launch date	25 Mar 2020 vs 29 July 2008
Core clock speed	1125 MHz vs 530 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	7 nm vs 65 nm

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 9700M GTS

6x more pipelines: 48 vs 8

Pipelines	48 vs 8

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: Apple A12Z Bionic
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 9700M GTS

Name	Apple A12Z Bionic	NVIDIA GeForce 9700M GTS
Geekbench - OpenCL	11391
PassMark - G3D Mark		278
PassMark - G2D Mark		38
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		3297
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		3297

Compare specifications (specs)

	Apple A12Z Bionic	NVIDIA GeForce 9700M GTS
Essentials
Launch date	25 Mar 2020	29 July 2008
Place in performance rating	1451	1449
Architecture		Tesla
Code name		G94
Type		Laptop
Technical info
Core clock speed	1125 MHz	530 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	7 nm	65 nm
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance	1.152 TFLOPS
Pipelines	8	48
Render output units	32
CUDA cores		48
Floating-point performance		127.2 gflops
Gigaflops		180
Texture fill rate		12.72 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)		60 Watt
Transistor count		505 million
Memory
Memory bandwidth	68.2 GB/s	51.2 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 bit	256 Bit
Memory type	LPDDR4X-4266	GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount		512 MB
Memory clock speed		1600 MHz
Shared memory		0
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors		No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface		PCIe 2.0 x16
Laptop size		large
API support
DirectX		10.0
OpenGL		3.3
Technologies
CUDA
HybridPower
PureVideo HD