Apple M2 8-core vs NVIDIA GeForce 6800 GT

Comparative analysis of Apple M2 8-core and NVIDIA GeForce 6800 GT 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

NVIDIA GeForce 6800 GT

Differences

Reasons to consider the Apple M2 8-core

Videocard is newer: launch date 18 year(s) 3 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 130 nm

Launch date	15 Jul 2022 vs 14 April 2004
Core clock speed	1398 MHz vs 350 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	5 nm vs 130 nm

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: Apple M2 8-core
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 6800 GT

Name	Apple M2 8-core	NVIDIA GeForce 6800 GT
Geekbench - OpenCL	26644
PassMark - G3D Mark		142
PassMark - G2D Mark		212

Compare specifications (specs)

	Apple M2 8-core	NVIDIA GeForce 6800 GT
Essentials
Launch date	15 Jul 2022	14 April 2004
Place in performance rating	850	849
Architecture		Curie
Code name		NV40 A1
Type		Desktop
Technical info
Core clock speed	1398 MHz	350 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	5 nm	130 nm
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance	2.863 TFLOPS
Pipelines	8
Render output units	32
Texture Units	10 Watt
Texture fill rate		5.6 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)		67 Watt
Transistor count		222 million
Memory
Memory bandwidth	102.4 GB/s	32.0 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 bit	256 Bit
Memory type	LPDDR5-6400	GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount		256 MB
Memory clock speed		700 MHz
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors		1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface		AGP 8x
Supplementary power connectors		1x Molex
API support
DirectX		9.0c
OpenGL		2.1