Apple M2 Pro 16-core vs NVIDIA Quadro P5200 Max-Q

Comparative analysis of Apple M2 Pro 16-core and NVIDIA Quadro P5200 Max-Q videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Memory, Video outputs and ports, API support. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: Geekbench - OpenCL.

Apple M2 Pro 16-core

NVIDIA Quadro P5200 Max-Q

Differences

Reasons to consider the Apple M2 Pro 16-core

Videocard is newer: launch date 4 year(s) 10 month(s) later
Around 6% higher core clock speed: 1398 MHz vs 1316 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 5 nm vs 16 nm

Launch date	17 Jan 2023 vs 21 February 2018
Core clock speed	1398 MHz vs 1316 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	5 nm vs 16 nm

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro P5200 Max-Q

160x more pipelines: 2560 vs 16
Around 1% better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 47268 vs 46974

Specifications (specs)
Pipelines	2560 vs 16
Benchmarks
Geekbench - OpenCL	47268 vs 46974

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: Apple M2 Pro 16-core
GPU 2: NVIDIA Quadro P5200 Max-Q

Geekbench - OpenCL

GPU 1

GPU 2

46974

47268

Name	Apple M2 Pro 16-core	NVIDIA Quadro P5200 Max-Q
Geekbench - OpenCL	46974	47268

Compare specifications (specs)

	Apple M2 Pro 16-core	NVIDIA Quadro P5200 Max-Q
Essentials
Launch date	17 Jan 2023	21 February 2018
Place in performance rating	463	460
Architecture		Pascal
Code name		GP104
Type		Laptop
Technical info
Core clock speed	1398 MHz	1316 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	5 nm	16 nm
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance	5.726 TFLOPS	8.033 TFLOPS
Pipelines	16	2560
Render output units	64
Boost clock speed		1569 MHz
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance		251.0 GFLOPS
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance		125.5 GFLOPS
Pixel fill rate		100.4 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate		251.0 GTexel/s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)		100 Watt
Transistor count		7200 million
Memory
Memory bandwidth	204.8 GB/s	230.9 GB/s
Memory bus width	256 bit	256 bit
Memory type	LPDDR5-6400	GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount		16 GB
Memory clock speed		1804 MHz (7216 MHz effective)
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors		No outputs
API support
DirectX		12
OpenCL		1.2
OpenGL		4.6
Shader Model		6.4
Vulkan