Apple M2 8-core vs NVIDIA P106-090

Comparative analysis of Apple M2 8-core and NVIDIA P106-090 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, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s).

Apple M2 8-core

NVIDIA P106-090

Differences

Reasons to consider the Apple M2 8-core

Videocard is newer: launch date 4 year(s) 11 month(s) later
Around 3% higher core clock speed: 1398 MHz vs 1354 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 5 nm vs 16 nm
Around 25% better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 26611 vs 21304

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	15 Jul 2022 vs 31 July 2017
Core clock speed	1398 MHz vs 1354 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	5 nm vs 16 nm
Benchmarks
Geekbench - OpenCL	26611 vs 21304

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA P106-090

96x more pipelines: 768 vs 8

Pipelines	768 vs 8

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: Apple M2 8-core
GPU 2: NVIDIA P106-090

Geekbench - OpenCL

GPU 1

GPU 2

26611

21304

Name	Apple M2 8-core	NVIDIA P106-090
Geekbench - OpenCL	26611	21304
PassMark - G2D Mark		104
PassMark - G3D Mark		2448
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)		86.225
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)		1309.517
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)		183.725
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)		6.178
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)		58.651

Compare specifications (specs)

	Apple M2 8-core	NVIDIA P106-090
Essentials
Launch date	15 Jul 2022	31 July 2017
Place in performance rating	872	874
Architecture		Pascal
Code name		GP106
Type		Desktop
Technical info
Core clock speed	1398 MHz	1354 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	5 nm	16 nm
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance	2.863 TFLOPS
Pipelines	8	768
Render output units	32
Texture Units	10 Watt
Boost clock speed		1531 MHz
Floating-point performance		2,352 gflops
Texture fill rate		73.49 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)		75 Watt
Transistor count		4,400 million
Memory
Memory bandwidth	102.4 GB/s	192.2 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 bit	192 Bit
Memory type	LPDDR5-6400	GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount		3 GB
Memory clock speed		8008 MHz
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors		No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface		PCIe 3.0 x16
Length		250 mm
Supplementary power connectors		1x 6-pin
API support
DirectX		12.0 (12_1)
OpenGL		4.6