Apple M2 8-core vs ATI Radeon HD 5550

Comparative analysis of Apple M2 8-core and ATI Radeon HD 5550 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.

Apple M2 8-core

ATI Radeon HD 5550

Differences

Reasons to consider the Apple M2 8-core

Videocard is newer: launch date 12 year(s) 5 month(s) later
2.5x more core clock speed: 1398 MHz vs 550 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 5 nm vs 40 nm

Launch date	15 Jul 2022 vs 9 February 2010
Core clock speed	1398 MHz vs 550 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	5 nm vs 40 nm

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon HD 5550

40x more pipelines: 320 vs 8

Pipelines	320 vs 8

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: Apple M2 8-core
GPU 2: ATI Radeon HD 5550

Name	Apple M2 8-core	ATI Radeon HD 5550
Geekbench - OpenCL	26315
PassMark - G3D Mark		377
PassMark - G2D Mark		185

Compare specifications (specs)

	Apple M2 8-core	ATI Radeon HD 5550
Essentials
Launch date	15 Jul 2022	9 February 2010
Place in performance rating	894	890
Architecture		TeraScale 2
Code name		Redwood
Type		Desktop
Technical info
Core clock speed	1398 MHz	550 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	5 nm	40 nm
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance	2.863 TFLOPS
Pipelines	8	320
Render output units	32
Texture Units	10 Watt
Floating-point performance		352.0 gflops
Texture fill rate		8.8 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)		39 Watt
Transistor count		627 million
Memory
Memory bandwidth	102.4 GB/s	51.2 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 bit	128 Bit
Memory type	LPDDR5-6400	GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount		512 MB
Memory clock speed		3200 MHz
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors		1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface		PCIe 2.0 x16
Length		165 mm
Supplementary power connectors		None
API support
DirectX		11.2 (11_0)
OpenGL		4.4