Apple M2 8-core vs NVIDIA Quadro K500M

Comparative analysis of Apple M2 8-core and NVIDIA Quadro K500M 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.

Apple M2 8-core

NVIDIA Quadro K500M

Differences

Reasons to consider the Apple M2 8-core

Videocard is newer: launch date 10 year(s) 1 month(s) later
Around 64% higher core clock speed: 1398 MHz vs 850 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 5 nm vs 28 nm

Launch date	15 Jul 2022 vs 1 June 2012
Core clock speed	1398 MHz vs 850 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	5 nm vs 28 nm

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro K500M

24x more pipelines: 192 vs 8

Pipelines	192 vs 8

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: Apple M2 8-core
GPU 2: NVIDIA Quadro K500M

Name	Apple M2 8-core	NVIDIA Quadro K500M
Geekbench - OpenCL	26558
PassMark - G2D Mark		184
PassMark - G3D Mark		480

Compare specifications (specs)

	Apple M2 8-core	NVIDIA Quadro K500M
Essentials
Launch date	15 Jul 2022	1 June 2012
Place in performance rating	885	888
Architecture		Kepler
Code name		GK107
Type		Mobile workstation
Technical info
Core clock speed	1398 MHz	850 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	5 nm	28 nm
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance	2.863 TFLOPS
Pipelines	8	192
Render output units	32
Texture Units	10 Watt
Floating-point performance		326.4 gflops
Texture fill rate		13.6 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)		35 Watt
Transistor count		1,270 million
Memory
Memory bandwidth	102.4 GB/s	12.8 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 bit	64 Bit
Memory type	LPDDR5-6400	DDR3 / GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount		1 GB
Memory clock speed		1600 MHz
Shared memory		0
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors		No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface		MXM-A (3.0)
Laptop size		medium sized
API support
DirectX		12.0 (11_0)
OpenGL		4.6
Vulkan