Apple A14 Bionic vs AMD Radeon RX Vega 56

Comparative analysis of Apple A14 Bionic and AMD Radeon RX Vega 56 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: GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, 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), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the Apple A14 Bionic

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 3 year(s) 2 month(s) later
  • Around 11% higher core clock speed: 1278 MHz vs 1156 MHz
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 5 nm vs 14 nm
  • 2x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames): 7440 vs 3717
  • 2x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps): 7440 vs 3717
  • 2x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 6721 vs 3361
  • 2x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 6721 vs 3361
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 23 Oct 2020 vs 14 August 2017
Core clock speed 1278 MHz vs 1156 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 5 nm vs 14 nm
Benchmarks
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 7440 vs 3717
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 7440 vs 3717
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 6721 vs 3361
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 6721 vs 3361

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX Vega 56

  • 896x more pipelines: 3584 vs 4
  • Around 10% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames): 14462 vs 13095
  • Around 10% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps): 14462 vs 13095
Specifications (specs)
Pipelines 3584 vs 4
Benchmarks
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 14462 vs 13095
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 14462 vs 13095

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: Apple A14 Bionic
GPU 2: AMD Radeon RX Vega 56

GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
13095
14462
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
13095
14462
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
7440
3717
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
7440
3717
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
6721
3361
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
6721
3361
Name Apple A14 Bionic AMD Radeon RX Vega 56
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 13095 14462
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 13095 14462
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 7440 3717
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 7440 3717
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 6721 3361
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 6721 3361
PassMark - G3D Mark 13175
PassMark - G2D Mark 768
Geekbench - OpenCL 163998
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 184.405
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 1765.06
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 12.606
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 79.32
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 1022.925
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 6875

Compare specifications (specs)

Apple A14 Bionic AMD Radeon RX Vega 56

Essentials

Launch date 23 Oct 2020 14 August 2017
Place in performance rating 218 217
Architecture GCN 5.0
Code name Vega 10
Design Radeon RX Vega Series
Launch price (MSRP) $399
Type Desktop

Technical info

Core clock speed 1278 MHz 1156 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 5 nm 14 nm
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance 654 GFLOPS 10.5 TFLOPs
Pipelines 4 3584
Render output units 16 64
Boost clock speed 1471 MHz
Compute units 56
Floating-point performance 10.5 TFLOPs
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance 21 TFLOPs
Pixel fill rate 94.00 GP/s
Stream Processors 3584
Texture fill rate 330.00 GTexel/s
Texture Units 256
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 210 Watt
Transistor count 12,500 million

Memory

Memory bandwidth 34.1 GB/s 410 GB/s
Memory bus width 64 bit 2048 bit
Memory type LPDDR4X-4266 HBM2
Maximum RAM amount 8 GB
Memory clock speed 1600 MHz

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
DisplayPort support
Dual-link DVI support
HDMI
VGA

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 3.0 x16
Length 267 mm
Recommended system power (PSU) 650 Watt
Supplementary power connectors 2x 8-pin

API support

DirectX 12
OpenCL 2.0
OpenGL 4.5
Vulkan

Technologies

AMD Eyefinity
AMD Radeon™ Chill
AMD Radeon™ ReLive
FreeSync
PowerTune
TressFX
TrueAudio
Unified Video Decoder (UVD)
Video Code Engine (VCE)
Virtual Super Resolution (VSR)
VR Ready
ZeroCore