AMD ROG Ally Extreme vs Apple M2 8-core

Comparative analysis of AMD ROG Ally Extreme and Apple M2 8-core videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score, Geekbench - OpenCL.

AMD ROG Ally Extreme

Apple M2 8-core

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD ROG Ally Extreme

Videocard is newer: launch date 10 month(s) later
Around 7% higher core clock speed: 1500 MHz vs 1398 MHz
96x more pipelines: 768 vs 8
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 4 nm vs 5 nm

Launch date	13 Jun 2023 vs 15 Jul 2022
Core clock speed	1500 MHz vs 1398 MHz
Pipelines	768 vs 8
Manufacturing process technology	4 nm vs 5 nm

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD ROG Ally Extreme
GPU 2: Apple M2 8-core

Name	AMD ROG Ally Extreme	Apple M2 8-core
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	2837
Geekbench - OpenCL		26468

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD ROG Ally Extreme	Apple M2 8-core
Essentials
Architecture	RDNA 3.0
Code name	Phoenix
Launch date	13 Jun 2023	15 Jul 2022
Place in performance rating	870	883
Technical info
Boost clock speed	2700 MHz
Compute units	12
Core clock speed	1500 MHz	1398 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	4 nm	5 nm
Pipelines	768	8
Pixel fill rate	86.40 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate	129.6 GTexel/s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	30 Watt
Transistor count	25390 million
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance		2.863 TFLOPS
Render output units		32
Texture Units		10 Watt
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x USB Type-C
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Height	21 mm, 0.8 inches
Length	280 mm, 11 inches
Supplementary power connectors	None
Width	111 mm, 4.4 inches
API support
DirectX	12 Ultimate (12_2)
OpenCL	2.1
OpenGL	4.6
Shader Model	6.7
Vulkan
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	16 GB
Memory bandwidth	51.20 GB/s	102.4 GB/s
Memory bus width	64 bit	128 bit
Memory clock speed	1600 MHz, 6.4 Gbps effective
Memory type	LPDDR5	LPDDR5-6400