Apple M2 8-core vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti Max-Q

Comparative analysis of Apple M2 8-core and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti Max-Q 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, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

Apple M2 8-core

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti Max-Q

Differences

Reasons to consider the Apple M2 8-core

Videocard is newer: launch date 4 year(s) 6 month(s) later
Around 21% higher core clock speed: 1398 MHz vs 1152 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 5 nm vs 14 nm
Around 34% better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 26644 vs 19914

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	15 Jul 2022 vs 3 January 2018
Core clock speed	1398 MHz vs 1152 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	5 nm vs 14 nm
Benchmarks
Geekbench - OpenCL	26644 vs 19914

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti Max-Q

96x more pipelines: 768 vs 8

Pipelines	768 vs 8

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: Apple M2 8-core
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti Max-Q

Geekbench - OpenCL

GPU 1

GPU 2

26644

19914

Name	Apple M2 8-core	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti Max-Q
Geekbench - OpenCL	26644	19914
PassMark - G3D Mark		5320
PassMark - G2D Mark		345
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)		54.188
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)		1159.046
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)		5.507
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)		82.067
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)		293.638
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)		8059
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)		3579
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		3358
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)		8059
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)		3579
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		3358
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score		2219

Compare specifications (specs)

	Apple M2 8-core	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti Max-Q
Essentials
Launch date	15 Jul 2022	3 January 2018
Place in performance rating	850	505
Architecture		Pascal
Code name		GP107
Type		Laptop
Technical info
Core clock speed	1398 MHz	1152 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	5 nm	14 nm
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance	2.863 TFLOPS
Pipelines	8	768
Render output units	32
Texture Units	10 Watt
Boost clock speed		1417 MHz
Floating-point performance		2,177 gflops
Texture fill rate		68.02 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)		75 Watt
Transistor count		3,300 million
Memory
Memory bandwidth	102.4 GB/s	112.1 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 bit	128 Bit
Memory type	LPDDR5-6400	GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount		4 GB
Memory clock speed		7008 MHz
Shared memory		0
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors		No outputs
G-SYNC support
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface		PCIe 3.0 x16
Laptop size		medium sized
Supplementary power connectors		None
API support
DirectX		12.0 (12_1)
OpenGL		4.6
Vulkan
Technologies
Multi Monitor
Multi-Projection
VR Ready