Apple A12Z Bionic vs NVIDIA Quadro 3000M

Comparative analysis of Apple A12Z Bionic and NVIDIA Quadro 3000M 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

NVIDIA Quadro 3000M

Differences

Reasons to consider the Apple A12Z Bionic

Videocard is newer: launch date 9 year(s) 1 month(s) later
2.5x more core clock speed: 1125 MHz vs 450 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 7 nm vs 40 nm
2.7x better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 9955 vs 3743

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	25 Mar 2020 vs 22 February 2011
Core clock speed	1125 MHz vs 450 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	7 nm vs 40 nm
Benchmarks
Geekbench - OpenCL	9955 vs 3743

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro 3000M

30x more pipelines: 240 vs 8

Pipelines	240 vs 8

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: Apple A12Z Bionic
GPU 2: NVIDIA Quadro 3000M

Geekbench - OpenCL

GPU 1

GPU 2

9955

3743

Name	Apple A12Z Bionic	NVIDIA Quadro 3000M
Geekbench - OpenCL	9955	3743
PassMark - G3D Mark		994
PassMark - G2D Mark		312
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)		10.95
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)		325.007
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)		0.865
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)		13.794
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)		27.961
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)		218
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)		374
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		543
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)		218
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)		374
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		543

Compare specifications (specs)

	Apple A12Z Bionic	NVIDIA Quadro 3000M
Essentials
Launch date	25 Mar 2020	22 February 2011
Place in performance rating	1495	1498
Architecture		Fermi
Code name		GF104
Launch price (MSRP)		$398.96
Price now		$199.95
Type		Mobile workstation
Value for money (0-100)		7.98
Technical info
Core clock speed	1125 MHz	450 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	7 nm	40 nm
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance	1.152 TFLOPS
Pipelines	8	240
Render output units	32
Floating-point performance		432.0 gflops
Texture fill rate		18 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)		75 Watt
Transistor count		1,950 million
Memory
Memory bandwidth	68.2 GB/s	80.0 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 bit	256 Bit
Memory type	LPDDR4X-4266	GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount		2 GB
Memory clock speed		2500 MHz
Shared memory		0
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors		No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface		MXM-B (3.0)
Laptop size		large
API support
DirectX		12.0 (11_0)
OpenGL		4.6