Apple A12Z Bionic vs NVIDIA GeForce 9800M GS

Comparative analysis of Apple A12Z Bionic and NVIDIA GeForce 9800M GS 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 9800M GS

Differences

Reasons to consider the Apple A12Z Bionic

Videocard is newer: launch date 11 year(s) 4 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 1 November 2008
Core clock speed	1125 MHz vs 530 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	7 nm vs 65 nm

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 9800M GS

8x more pipelines: 64 vs 8

Pipelines	64 vs 8

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: Apple A12Z Bionic
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 9800M GS

Name	Apple A12Z Bionic	NVIDIA GeForce 9800M GS
Geekbench - OpenCL	9955
PassMark - G3D Mark		534
PassMark - G2D Mark		50
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		2414
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		2414

Compare specifications (specs)

	Apple A12Z Bionic	NVIDIA GeForce 9800M GS
Essentials
Launch date	25 Mar 2020	1 November 2008
Place in performance rating	1487	1484
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	64
Render output units	32
CUDA cores		64
Floating-point performance		169.6 gflops
Gigaflops		254
Texture fill rate		16 billion / sec
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
Maximum VGA resolution		2048x1536
Multi monitor support
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Bus support		PCI-E 2.0
Interface		PCIe 2.0 x16
Laptop size		large
Supplementary power connectors		None
API support
DirectX		10.0
OpenGL		2.1
Technologies
CUDA
Power management		8.0