Apple A12Z Bionic vs AMD FirePro S4000X

Comparative analysis of Apple A12Z Bionic and AMD FirePro S4000X 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, 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).

Apple A12Z Bionic

AMD FirePro S4000X

Differences

Reasons to consider the Apple A12Z Bionic

Videocard is newer: launch date 5 year(s) 7 month(s) later
Around 55% higher core clock speed: 1125 MHz vs 725 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 7 nm vs 28 nm

Launch date	25 Mar 2020 vs 7 August 2014
Core clock speed	1125 MHz vs 725 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	7 nm vs 28 nm

Reasons to consider the AMD FirePro S4000X

80x more pipelines: 640 vs 8

Pipelines	640 vs 8

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: Apple A12Z Bionic
GPU 2: AMD FirePro S4000X

Name	Apple A12Z Bionic	AMD FirePro S4000X
Geekbench - OpenCL	11391
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)		19.089
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)		478.725
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)		2.08
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)		34.934
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)		92.567

Compare specifications (specs)

	Apple A12Z Bionic	AMD FirePro S4000X
Essentials
Launch date	25 Mar 2020	7 August 2014
Place in performance rating	1437	1439
Architecture		GCN 1.0
Code name		Venus
Type		Workstation
Technical info
Core clock speed	1125 MHz	725 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	7 nm	28 nm
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance	1.152 TFLOPS
Pipelines	8	640
Render output units	32
Boost clock speed		775 MHz
Floating-point performance		992.0 gflops
Texture fill rate		31 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)		45 Watt
Transistor count		1,500 million
Memory
Memory bandwidth	68.2 GB/s	72 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 bit	128 Bit
Memory type	LPDDR4X-4266	GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount		2 GB
Memory clock speed		4500 MHz
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors		No outputs
Dual-link DVI support
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Bus support		PCIe 3.0
Form factor		MXM-A
Interface		PCIe 3.0 x16
API support
DirectX		12.0 (11_1)
OpenGL		4.5