Apple M2 8-core vs NVIDIA T400

Comparative analysis of Apple M2 8-core and NVIDIA T400 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, 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).

Apple M2 8-core

NVIDIA T400

Differences

Reasons to consider the Apple M2 8-core

Videocard is newer: launch date 1 year(s) 2 month(s) later
3.3x more core clock speed: 1398 MHz vs 420 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 5 nm vs 12 nm
Around 56% better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 26611 vs 17008

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	15 Jul 2022 vs 6 May 2021
Core clock speed	1398 MHz vs 420 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	5 nm vs 12 nm
Benchmarks
Geekbench - OpenCL	26611 vs 17008

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA T400

48x more pipelines: 384 vs 8

Pipelines	384 vs 8

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: Apple M2 8-core
GPU 2: NVIDIA T400

Geekbench - OpenCL

GPU 1

GPU 2

26611

17008

Name	Apple M2 8-core	NVIDIA T400
Geekbench - OpenCL	26611	17008
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)		58.805
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)		785.059
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)		3.961
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)		53.111
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)		222.15
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)		5088
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)		2173
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		3346
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)		5088
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)		2173
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		3346

Compare specifications (specs)

	Apple M2 8-core	NVIDIA T400
Essentials
Launch date	15 Jul 2022	6 May 2021
Place in performance rating	872	885
Architecture		Turing
Code name		TU117
Technical info
Core clock speed	1398 MHz	420 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	5 nm	12 nm
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance	2.863 TFLOPS	1,094 GFLOPS
Pipelines	8	384
Render output units	32
Texture Units	10 Watt
Boost clock speed		1425 MHz
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance		34.20 GFLOPS (1:32)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance		2.189 TFLOPS (2:1)
Pixel fill rate		22.80 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate		34.20 GTexel/s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)		30 Watt
Transistor count		4700 million
Memory
Memory bandwidth	102.4 GB/s	80.00 GB/s
Memory bus width	128 bit	64 bit
Memory type	LPDDR5-6400	GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount		2 GB
Memory clock speed		1250 MHz, 10 Gbps effective
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors		3x mini-DisplayPort 1.4a
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Form factor		Single-slot
Interface		PCIe 3.0 x16
Recommended system power (PSU)		200 Watt
Supplementary power connectors		None
API support
DirectX		12 (12_1)
OpenCL		3.0
OpenGL		4.6
Shader Model		6.7 (6.4)
Vulkan