Apple M2 8-core vs NVIDIA Tesla K80m

Comparative analysis of Apple M2 8-core and NVIDIA Tesla K80m 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 - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s).

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the Apple M2 8-core

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 7 year(s) 7 month(s) later
  • 2.5x more core clock speed: 1398 MHz vs 562 MHz
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 5 nm vs 28 nm
  • Around 46% better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 26479 vs 18174
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 15 Jul 2022 vs 17 November 2014
Core clock speed 1398 MHz vs 562 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 5 nm vs 28 nm
Benchmarks
Geekbench - OpenCL 26479 vs 18174

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Tesla K80m

  • 624x more pipelines: 2x 2496 vs 8
Pipelines 2x 2496 vs 8

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: Apple M2 8-core
GPU 2: NVIDIA Tesla K80m

Geekbench - OpenCL
GPU 1
GPU 2
26479
18174
Name Apple M2 8-core NVIDIA Tesla K80m
Geekbench - OpenCL 26479 18174
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 64.366
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 1352.236
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 75.764
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 198.978
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 5.572

Compare specifications (specs)

Apple M2 8-core NVIDIA Tesla K80m

Essentials

Launch date 15 Jul 2022 17 November 2014
Place in performance rating 883 885
Architecture Kepler 2.0
Code name GK210
Type Workstation

Technical info

Core clock speed 1398 MHz 562 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 5 nm 28 nm
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance 2.863 TFLOPS
Pipelines 8 2x 2496
Render output units 32
Texture Units 10 Watt
Boost clock speed 876 MHz
Floating-point performance 2x 4,373 gflops
Texture fill rate 2x 182.2 GTexel / s billion / sec
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 300 Watt
Transistor count 7,080 million

Memory

Memory bandwidth 102.4 GB/s 2x 240.6 GB / s
Memory bus width 128 bit 2x 384 Bit
Memory type LPDDR5-6400 GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount 2x 12 GB
Memory clock speed 5012 MHz

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors No outputs

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 3.0 x16
Length 267 mm
Supplementary power connectors 1x 8-pin

API support

DirectX 12.0 (11_1)
OpenGL 4.6