Apple M2 10-core vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Mobile

Comparative analysis of Apple M2 10-core and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Mobile 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: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, 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 M2 10-core

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Mobile

Differences

Reasons to consider the Apple M2 10-core

Around 96% higher core clock speed: 1398 MHz vs 712 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 5 nm vs 8 nm

Core clock speed	1398 MHz vs 712 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	5 nm vs 8 nm

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Mobile

Videocard is newer: launch date 3 year(s) 9 month(s) later
204.8x more pipelines: 2048 vs 10

Launch date	2021 vs 24 Jun 2022
Pipelines	2048 vs 10

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: Apple M2 10-core
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Mobile

Name	Apple M2 10-core	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Mobile
PassMark - G3D Mark		6831
PassMark - G2D Mark		403
Geekbench - OpenCL		50663
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)		165.993
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)		1980.866
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)		14.641
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)		135.641
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)		745.481
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)		15760
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)		8923
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		8045
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)		15760
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)		8923
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		8045
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score		421

Compare specifications (specs)

	Apple M2 10-core	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Mobile
Essentials
Launch date	24 Jun 2022	2021
Place in performance rating	not rated	248
Architecture		Ampere
Code name		GA107
Type		Laptop
Technical info
Core clock speed	1398 MHz	712 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	5 nm	8 nm
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance	3.578 TFLOPS	4.329 TFLOPS
Pipelines	10	2048
Render output units	40
Texture Units	15 Watt
Boost clock speed		1057 MHz
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance		67.65 GFLOPS (1:64)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance		4.329 TFLOPS (1:1)
Pixel fill rate		42.28 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate		67.65 GTexel/s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)		75 Watt
Memory
Memory bandwidth	102.4 GB/s	192 GB/s
Memory bus width	128 bit	128 Bit
Memory type	LPDDR5-6400	GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount		4 GB
Memory clock speed		1500 MHz (12 Gbps effective)
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors		No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface		PCIe 4.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors		None
Width		IGP
API support
DirectX		12.2
OpenCL		3.0
OpenGL		4.6
Shader Model		6.6
Vulkan