Apple M2 Pro 16-core vs ATI Mobility Radeon HD 540v

Comparative analysis of Apple M2 Pro 16-core and ATI Mobility Radeon HD 540v 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 - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark.

Apple M2 Pro 16-core

ATI Mobility Radeon HD 540v

Differences

Reasons to consider the Apple M2 Pro 16-core

Videocard is newer: launch date 12 year(s) 8 month(s) later
2.5x more core clock speed: 1398 MHz vs 550 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 5 nm vs 55 nm

Launch date	17 Jan 2023 vs 5 May 2010
Core clock speed	1398 MHz vs 550 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	5 nm vs 55 nm

Reasons to consider the ATI Mobility Radeon HD 540v

5x more pipelines: 80 vs 16

Pipelines	80 vs 16

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: Apple M2 Pro 16-core
GPU 2: ATI Mobility Radeon HD 540v

Name	Apple M2 Pro 16-core	ATI Mobility Radeon HD 540v
Geekbench - OpenCL	47850
PassMark - G3D Mark		188
PassMark - G2D Mark		382

Compare specifications (specs)

	Apple M2 Pro 16-core	ATI Mobility Radeon HD 540v
Essentials
Launch date	17 Jan 2023	5 May 2010
Place in performance rating	446	444
Architecture		TeraScale
Code name		M92
Type		Laptop
Technical info
Core clock speed	1398 MHz	550 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	5 nm	55 nm
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance	5.726 TFLOPS
Pipelines	16	80
Render output units	64
Floating-point performance		88 gflops
Texture fill rate		4.4 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)		15 Watt
Transistor count		242 million
Memory
Memory bandwidth	204.8 GB/s	12.8 GB / s
Memory bus width	256 bit	64 Bit
Memory type	LPDDR5-6400	GDDR3, DDR3, DDR2
Maximum RAM amount		512 MB
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)
API support
DirectX		10.1
OpenGL		3.3