Apple M2 Pro 16-core vs NVIDIA GeForce 9300 SE

Comparative analysis of Apple M2 Pro 16-core and NVIDIA GeForce 9300 SE 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 Pro 16-core

NVIDIA GeForce 9300 SE

Differences

Reasons to consider the Apple M2 Pro 16-core

Videocard is newer: launch date 14 year(s) 7 month(s) later
2.6x more core clock speed: 1398 MHz vs 540 MHz
2x more pipelines: 16 vs 8
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 5 nm vs 65 nm

Launch date	17 Jan 2023 vs 1 June 2008
Core clock speed	1398 MHz vs 540 MHz
Pipelines	16 vs 8
Manufacturing process technology	5 nm vs 65 nm

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: Apple M2 Pro 16-core
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 9300 SE

Name	Apple M2 Pro 16-core	NVIDIA GeForce 9300 SE
Geekbench - OpenCL	46981
PassMark - G2D Mark		344
PassMark - G3D Mark		82

Compare specifications (specs)

	Apple M2 Pro 16-core	NVIDIA GeForce 9300 SE
Essentials
Launch date	17 Jan 2023	1 June 2008
Place in performance rating	463	464
Architecture		Tesla
Code name		G98
Type		Desktop
Technical info
Core clock speed	1398 MHz	540 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	5 nm	65 nm
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance	5.726 TFLOPS
Pipelines	16	8
Render output units	64
Floating-point performance		20.8 gflops
Texture fill rate		4.32 GTexel / s
Transistor count		210 million
Memory
Memory bandwidth	204.8 GB/s	6.4 GB / s
Memory bus width	256 bit	64 Bit
Memory type	LPDDR5-6400	DDR2
Maximum RAM amount		256 MB
Memory clock speed		800 MHz
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors		1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface		PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors		None
API support
DirectX		10.0
OpenGL		3.3