Apple M2 8-core vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950M

Comparative analysis of Apple M2 8-core and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950M 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 950M

Differences

Reasons to consider the Apple M2 8-core

Videocard is newer: launch date 7 year(s) 4 month(s) later
Around 53% higher core clock speed: 1398 MHz vs 914 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 5 nm vs 28 nm
2.7x better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 26558 vs 9730

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	15 Jul 2022 vs 13 March 2015
Core clock speed	1398 MHz vs 914 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	5 nm vs 28 nm
Benchmarks
Geekbench - OpenCL	26558 vs 9730

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950M

80x more pipelines: 640 vs 8

Pipelines	640 vs 8

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: Apple M2 8-core
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950M

Geekbench - OpenCL

GPU 1

GPU 2

26558

9730

Name	Apple M2 8-core	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950M
Geekbench - OpenCL	26558	9730
PassMark - G3D Mark		2585
PassMark - G2D Mark		217
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)		42.396
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)		373.644
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)		2.54
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)		39.412
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)		139.158
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)		4148
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)		3715
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		3358
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)		4148
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)		3715
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		3358
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score		3350

Compare specifications (specs)

	Apple M2 8-core	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950M
Essentials
Launch date	15 Jul 2022	13 March 2015
Place in performance rating	885	886
Architecture		Maxwell
Code name		GM107
Type		Laptop
Technical info
Core clock speed	1398 MHz	914 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		1124 MHz
CUDA cores		640
Floating-point performance		1,439 gflops
Texture fill rate		44.96 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)		75 Watt
Transistor count		1,870 million
Memory
Memory bandwidth	102.4 GB/s	32 or 80 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 bit	128 Bit
Memory type	LPDDR5-6400	DDR3 or GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount		4 GB
Memory clock speed		1000 or 2500 MHz
Shared memory		0
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors		No outputs
DisplayPort Multimode (DP++) support		1
HDMI
VGA аnalog display support		1
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Bus support		PCI Express 3.0
Interface		PCIe 3.0 x8
Laptop size		medium sized
API support
DirectX		12.0 (11_0)
OpenGL		4.5
Technologies
Adaptive VSync
Ansel
BatteryBoost
CUDA
DSR
GameStream
GameWorks
GeForce Experience
GeForce ShadowPlay
GPU Boost
H.264, VC1, MPEG2 1080p video decoder
Optimus
SLI