Apple M2 10-core vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile 6 GB

Comparative analysis of Apple M2 10-core and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile 6 GB 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: GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

Apple M2 10-core

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile 6 GB

Differences

Reasons to consider the Apple M2 10-core

Videocard is newer: launch date 5 year(s) 10 month(s) later
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 5 nm vs 16 nm

Launch date	24 Jun 2022 vs 15 August 2016
Manufacturing process technology	5 nm vs 16 nm

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile 6 GB

128x more pipelines: 1280 vs 10

Core clock speed	1404 MHz vs 1398 MHz
Pipelines	1280 vs 10

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: Apple M2 10-core
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile 6 GB

Name	Apple M2 10-core	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile 6 GB
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)		12021
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)		12021
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)		5569
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)		5569
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		5034
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		5034

Compare specifications (specs)

	Apple M2 10-core	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile 6 GB
Essentials
Launch date	24 Jun 2022	15 August 2016
Place in performance rating	not rated	278
Architecture		Pascal
Code name		GP106
Type		Desktop
Technical info
Core clock speed	1398 MHz	1404 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	5 nm	16 nm
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance	3.578 TFLOPS
Pipelines	10	1280
Render output units	40
Texture Units	15 Watt
Boost clock speed		1670 MHz
Floating-point performance		4,275 gflops
Texture fill rate		133.6 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)		80 Watt
Transistor count		4,400 million
Memory
Memory bandwidth	102.4 GB/s	192.2 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 bit	192 Bit
Memory type	LPDDR5-6400	GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount		6 GB
Memory clock speed		8008 MHz
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors		No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface		PCIe 3.0 x16
API support
Vulkan
Technologies
CUDA