Apple M2 Pro 16-core vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 Max-Q

Comparative analysis of Apple M2 Pro 16-core and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 Max-Q 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, 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), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the Apple M2 Pro 16-core

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 3 year(s) 8 month(s) later
  • Around 37% higher core clock speed: 1398 MHz vs 1020 MHz
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 5 nm vs 12 nm
  • Around 32% better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 47850 vs 36290
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 17 Jan 2023 vs 23 April 2019
Core clock speed 1398 MHz vs 1020 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 5 nm vs 12 nm
Benchmarks
Geekbench - OpenCL 47850 vs 36290

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 Max-Q

  • 56x more pipelines: 896 vs 16
Pipelines 896 vs 16

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: Apple M2 Pro 16-core
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 Max-Q

Geekbench - OpenCL
GPU 1
GPU 2
47850
36290
Name Apple M2 Pro 16-core NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 Max-Q
Geekbench - OpenCL 47850 36290
PassMark - G3D Mark 6222
PassMark - G2D Mark 326
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 129.465
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 1047.553
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 7.88
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 78.563
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 346.529
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 8824
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3707
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3352
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 8824
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3707
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3352
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 2954

Compare specifications (specs)

Apple M2 Pro 16-core NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 Max-Q

Essentials

Launch date 17 Jan 2023 23 April 2019
Place in performance rating 446 447
Architecture Turing
Code name TU117
Type Laptop

Technical info

Core clock speed 1398 MHz 1020 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 5 nm 12 nm
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance 5.726 TFLOPS 2.231 TFLOPS
Pipelines 16 896
Render output units 64
Boost clock speed 1245 MHz
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance 69.72 GFLOPS
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance 4.462 TFLOPS
Pixel fill rate 39.84 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate 69.72 GTexel/s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 35 Watt
Transistor count 4700 million

Memory

Memory bandwidth 204.8 GB/s 128.0 GB/s
Memory bus width 256 bit 128 bit
Memory type LPDDR5-6400 GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount 4 GB
Memory clock speed 2000 MHz (8000 MHz effective)

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors No outputs

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 3.0 x16
Laptop size medium sized

API support

DirectX 12.1
OpenCL 1.2
OpenGL 4.6
Shader Model 6.4
Vulkan