Apple M2 8-core vs NVIDIA GeForce 256 DDR

Comparative analysis of Apple M2 8-core and NVIDIA GeForce 256 DDR 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 - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the Apple M2 8-core

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 22 year(s) 5 month(s) later
  • 11.7x more core clock speed: 1398 MHz vs 120 MHz
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 5 nm vs 220 nm
Launch date 15 Jul 2022 vs 1 February 2000
Core clock speed 1398 MHz vs 120 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 5 nm vs 220 nm

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: Apple M2 8-core
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 256 DDR

Name Apple M2 8-core NVIDIA GeForce 256 DDR
Geekbench - OpenCL 26538
PassMark - G2D Mark 201
PassMark - G3D Mark 5

Compare specifications (specs)

Apple M2 8-core NVIDIA GeForce 256 DDR

Essentials

Launch date 15 Jul 2022 1 February 2000
Place in performance rating 883 882
Architecture Celsius
Code name NV10 A3
Type Desktop

Technical info

Core clock speed 1398 MHz 120 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 5 nm 220 nm
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance 2.863 TFLOPS
Pipelines 8
Render output units 32
Texture Units 10 Watt
Texture fill rate 480 MTexel / s
Transistor count 17 million

Memory

Memory bandwidth 102.4 GB/s 4.8 GB / s
Memory bus width 128 bit 128 Bit
Memory type LPDDR5-6400 DDR
Maximum RAM amount 32 MB
Memory clock speed 300 MHz

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors 1x VGA

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface AGP 4x
Supplementary power connectors None

API support

DirectX 7.0
OpenGL 1.2