Apple M2 Pro 16-core vs NVIDIA P106-100

Comparative analysis of Apple M2 Pro 16-core and NVIDIA P106-100 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.

Apple M2 Pro 16-core

NVIDIA P106-100

Differences

Reasons to consider the Apple M2 Pro 16-core

Videocard is newer: launch date 5 year(s) 6 month(s) later
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 5 nm vs 16 nm
Around 33% better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 47760 vs 35930

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	17 Jan 2023 vs 19 June 2017
Manufacturing process technology	5 nm vs 16 nm
Benchmarks
Geekbench - OpenCL	47760 vs 35930

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA P106-100

Around 8% higher core clock speed: 1506 MHz vs 1398 MHz
80x more pipelines: 1280 vs 16

Core clock speed	1506 MHz vs 1398 MHz
Pipelines	1280 vs 16

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: Apple M2 Pro 16-core
GPU 2: NVIDIA P106-100

Geekbench - OpenCL

GPU 1

GPU 2

47760

35930

Name	Apple M2 Pro 16-core	NVIDIA P106-100
Geekbench - OpenCL	47760	35930
PassMark - G3D Mark		6608
PassMark - G2D Mark		247
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)		163.993
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)		1705.321
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)		9.266
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)		76.32
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)		448.036
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)		12824
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)		1860
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		1680
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)		12824
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)		1860
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		1680
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score		899

Compare specifications (specs)

	Apple M2 Pro 16-core	NVIDIA P106-100
Essentials
Launch date	17 Jan 2023	19 June 2017
Place in performance rating	451	448
Architecture		Pascal
Code name		GP106
Type		Desktop
Technical info
Core clock speed	1398 MHz	1506 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	5 nm	16 nm
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance	5.726 TFLOPS
Pipelines	16	1280
Render output units	64
Boost clock speed		1709 MHz
Floating-point performance		4,375 gflops
Texture fill rate		136.7 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)		120 Watt
Transistor count		4,400 million
Memory
Memory bandwidth	204.8 GB/s	192.2 GB / s
Memory bus width	256 bit	192 Bit
Memory type	LPDDR5-6400	GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount		6 GB
Memory clock speed		8008 MHz
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors		No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface		PCIe 3.0 x16
Length		250 mm
Supplementary power connectors		1x 6-pin
API support
DirectX		12.0 (12_1)
OpenGL		4.6