Apple A12Z Bionic vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 540M

Comparative analysis of Apple A12Z Bionic and NVIDIA GeForce GT 540M 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, 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), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

Apple A12Z Bionic

NVIDIA GeForce GT 540M

Differences

Reasons to consider the Apple A12Z Bionic

Videocard is newer: launch date 9 year(s) 2 month(s) later
Around 67% higher core clock speed: 1125 MHz vs 672 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 7 nm vs 40 nm
4.6x better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 9955 vs 2154

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	25 Mar 2020 vs 5 January 2011
Core clock speed	1125 MHz vs 672 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	7 nm vs 40 nm
Benchmarks
Geekbench - OpenCL	9955 vs 2154

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GT 540M

12x more pipelines: 96 vs 8

Pipelines	96 vs 8

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: Apple A12Z Bionic
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GT 540M

Geekbench - OpenCL

GPU 1

GPU 2

9955

2154

Name	Apple A12Z Bionic	NVIDIA GeForce GT 540M
Geekbench - OpenCL	9955	2154
PassMark - G3D Mark		478
PassMark - G2D Mark		90
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)		4.85
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)		195.796
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)		0.561
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)		9.109
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)		16.727
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)		960
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)		2210
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		2701
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)		960
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)		2210
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		2701
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score		0

Compare specifications (specs)

	Apple A12Z Bionic	NVIDIA GeForce GT 540M
Essentials
Launch date	25 Mar 2020	5 January 2011
Place in performance rating	1497	1500
Architecture		Fermi
Code name		GF108
Type		Laptop
Technical info
Core clock speed	1125 MHz	672 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	7 nm	40 nm
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance	1.152 TFLOPS
Pipelines	8	96
Render output units	32
CUDA cores		96
Floating-point performance		258.05 gflops
Texture fill rate		10.8 billion / sec
Thermal Design Power (TDP)		35 Watt
Transistor count		585 million
Memory
Memory bandwidth	68.2 GB/s	28.8 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 bit	128 Bit
Memory type	LPDDR4X-4266	DDR3
Maximum RAM amount		1 GB
Memory clock speed		900 MHz
Shared memory		0
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors		No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface		MXM-A (3.0)
Laptop size		large
API support
DirectX		12 API
OpenCL		1.1
OpenGL		4.5
Technologies
3D Blu-Ray
3D Gaming
3D Vision
3D Vision / 3DTV Play
CUDA
DirectCompute
DirectX 11		DirectX 11
Optimus