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.

 

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: 26538 vs 9728
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 26538 vs 9728

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
26538
9728
Name Apple M2 8-core NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950M
Geekbench - OpenCL 26538 9728
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 883 884
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