Apple M2 Pro 16-core vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M

Comparative analysis of Apple M2 Pro 16-core and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Memory, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Technologies. 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.

Apple M2 Pro 16-core

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M

Differences

Reasons to consider the Apple M2 Pro 16-core

Videocard is newer: launch date 8 year(s) 3 month(s) later
Around 35% higher core clock speed: 1398 MHz vs 1038 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 5 nm vs 28 nm
2x better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 47728 vs 23790

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	17 Jan 2023 vs 7 October 2014
Core clock speed	1398 MHz vs 1038 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	5 nm vs 28 nm
Benchmarks
Geekbench - OpenCL	47728 vs 23790

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M

96x more pipelines: 1536 vs 16

Pipelines	1536 vs 16

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: Apple M2 Pro 16-core
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M

Geekbench - OpenCL

GPU 1

GPU 2

47728

23790

Name	Apple M2 Pro 16-core	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M
Geekbench - OpenCL	47728	23790
PassMark - G3D Mark		7356
PassMark - G2D Mark		491
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)		92.634
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)		1146.534
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)		6.776
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)		18.431
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)		308.42
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)		10572
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)		3695
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		3342
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)		10572
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)		3695
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		3342
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score		3190

Compare specifications (specs)

	Apple M2 Pro 16-core	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M
Essentials
Launch date	17 Jan 2023	7 October 2014
Place in performance rating	455	452
Architecture		Maxwell 2.0
Code name		GM204
Type		Laptop
Technical info
Core clock speed	1398 MHz	1038 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	5 nm	28 nm
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance	5.726 TFLOPS
Pipelines	16	1536
Render output units	64
Boost clock speed		1127 MHz
CUDA cores		1536
Floating-point performance		1,659 gflops
Texture fill rate		51.84 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)		100 Watt
Transistor count		5,200 million
Memory
Memory bandwidth	204.8 GB/s	160 GB / s
Memory bus width	256 bit	256 Bit
Memory type	LPDDR5-6400	GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount		8 GB
Memory clock speed		2500 MHz
Shared memory		0
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors		No outputs
DisplayPort Multimode (DP++) support		1
G-SYNC support
HDMI
VGA аnalog display support		1
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Bus support		PCI Express 3.0
Interface		MXM-B (3.0)
Laptop size		large
SLI options		1
Supplementary power connectors		None
API support
DirectX		12.0 (12_1)
OpenCL		1.1
OpenGL		4.5
Technologies
Ansel
BatteryBoost
CUDA
DSR
GameStream
GameWorks
GeForce Experience
GeForce ShadowPlay
GPU Boost
H.264, VC1, MPEG2 1080p video decoder
Optimus
SLI