Apple M2 8-core vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 860M

Comparative analysis of Apple M2 8-core and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 860M 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 860M

Differences

Reasons to consider the Apple M2 8-core

Videocard is newer: launch date 8 year(s) 4 month(s) later
Around 75% higher core clock speed: 1398 MHz vs 797 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 5 nm vs 28 nm
2.5x better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 26607 vs 10435

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	15 Jul 2022 vs 10 March 2014
Core clock speed	1398 MHz vs 797 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	5 nm vs 28 nm
Benchmarks
Geekbench - OpenCL	26607 vs 10435

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 860M

80x more pipelines: 640 vs 8

Pipelines	640 vs 8

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: Apple M2 8-core
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 860M

Geekbench - OpenCL

GPU 1

GPU 2

26607

10435

Name	Apple M2 8-core	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 860M
Geekbench - OpenCL	26607	10435
PassMark - G3D Mark		3057
PassMark - G2D Mark		226
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)		22.828
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)		210.585
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)		3.427
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)		28.662
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)		162.83
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)		4938
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)		3684
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		3340
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)		4938
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)		3684
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		3340
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score		1151

Compare specifications (specs)

	Apple M2 8-core	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 860M
Essentials
Launch date	15 Jul 2022	10 March 2014
Place in performance rating	874	877
Architecture		Kepler
Code name		GK104
Type		Laptop
Technical info
Core clock speed	1398 MHz	797 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	5 nm	28 nm
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance	2.863 TFLOPS
Pipelines	8	640
Render output units	32
Texture Units	10 Watt
Boost clock speed		915 MHz
CUDA cores		1152 or 640
Floating-point performance		1,389 gflops
Texture fill rate		43.4 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)		75 Watt
Transistor count		3,540 million
Memory
Memory bandwidth	102.4 GB/s	80.0 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 bit	128 Bit
Memory type	LPDDR5-6400	GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount		2 GB
Shared memory		0
Standard memory configuration		GDDR5
Video outputs and ports
7.1 channel HD audio on HDMI
Display Connectors		No outputs
DisplayPort Multimode (DP++) support		Up to 3840x2160
eDP 1.2 signal support		Up to 3840x2160
HDCP content protection
HDMI
LVDS signal support		Up to 1920x1200
TrueHD and DTS-HD audio bitstreaming
VGA аnalog display support		Up to 2048x1536
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Bus support		PCI Express 2.0, PCI Express 3.0
Interface		PCIe 3.0 x16
Laptop size		medium sized
Supplementary power connectors		None
API support
DirectX		12.0 (11_0)
OpenCL		1.1
OpenGL		4.5
Technologies
3D Blu-Ray
Adaptive VSync
Ansel
BatteryBoost
CUDA
Direct Compute
FXAA
GeForce Experience
GeForce ShadowPlay
GPU Boost
H.264, VC1, MPEG2 1080p video decoder
Optimus
SLI
TXAA