Apple M2 8-core vs ATI Mobility Radeon X700

Comparative analysis of Apple M2 8-core and ATI Mobility Radeon X700 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.

Apple M2 8-core

ATI Mobility Radeon X700

Differences

Reasons to consider the Apple M2 8-core

Videocard is newer: launch date 17 year(s) 4 month(s) later
4x more core clock speed: 1398 MHz vs 350 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 5 nm vs 110 nm

Launch date	15 Jul 2022 vs 1 March 2005
Core clock speed	1398 MHz vs 350 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	5 nm vs 110 nm

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: Apple M2 8-core
GPU 2: ATI Mobility Radeon X700

Name	Apple M2 8-core	ATI Mobility Radeon X700
Geekbench - OpenCL	26538
PassMark - G3D Mark		67
PassMark - G2D Mark		200

Compare specifications (specs)

	Apple M2 8-core	ATI Mobility Radeon X700
Essentials
Launch date	15 Jul 2022	1 March 2005
Place in performance rating	883	880
Architecture		R400
Code name		M26
Type		Laptop
Technical info
Core clock speed	1398 MHz	350 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	5 nm	110 nm
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance	2.863 TFLOPS
Pipelines	8	8
Render output units	32
Texture Units	10 Watt
Boost clock speed		350 MHz
Texture fill rate		2.8 GTexel / s
Transistor count		120 million
Memory
Memory bandwidth	102.4 GB/s	11.2 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 bit	350 Bit
Memory type	LPDDR5-6400	128
Maximum RAM amount		128 MB
Memory clock speed		600 MHz
Shared memory		0
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors		No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface		PCIe 1.0 x16
Laptop size		medium sized
API support
DirectX		9.0b
OpenGL		2.0
Technologies
PCIe