Apple M2 8-core vs NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GS AGP

Comparative analysis of Apple M2 8-core and NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GS AGP 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.

Apple M2 8-core

NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GS AGP

Differences

Reasons to consider the Apple M2 8-core

Videocard is newer: launch date 16 year(s) 5 month(s) later
3.7x more core clock speed: 1398 MHz vs 375 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 5 nm vs 90 nm

Launch date	15 Jul 2022 vs 2 February 2006
Core clock speed	1398 MHz vs 375 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	5 nm vs 90 nm

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: Apple M2 8-core
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GS AGP

Name	Apple M2 8-core	NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GS AGP
Geekbench - OpenCL	26607
PassMark - G2D Mark		199
PassMark - G3D Mark		177

Compare specifications (specs)

	Apple M2 8-core	NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GS AGP
Essentials
Launch date	15 Jul 2022	2 February 2006
Place in performance rating	874	871
Architecture		Curie
Code name		G71
Type		Desktop
Technical info
Core clock speed	1398 MHz	375 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	5 nm	90 nm
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance	2.863 TFLOPS
Pipelines	8
Render output units	32
Texture Units	10 Watt
Texture fill rate		6 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)		75 Watt
Transistor count		278 million
Memory
Memory bandwidth	102.4 GB/s	38.4 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 bit	256 Bit
Memory type	LPDDR5-6400	GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount		256 MB
Memory clock speed		1200 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