Apple A14 Bionic vs AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition

Comparative analysis of Apple A14 Bionic and AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition 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: 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) 3 month(s) later
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 5 nm vs 14 nm
  • Around 1% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames): 13095 vs 12980
  • Around 1% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps): 13095 vs 12980
  • 2x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames): 7440 vs 3718
  • 2x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps): 7440 vs 3718
  • 2x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 6721 vs 3356
  • 2x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 6721 vs 3356
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 23 Oct 2020 vs 27 June 2017
Manufacturing process technology 5 nm vs 14 nm
Benchmarks
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 13095 vs 12980
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 13095 vs 12980
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 7440 vs 3718
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 7440 vs 3718
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 6721 vs 3356
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 6721 vs 3356

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition

  • Around 8% higher core clock speed: 1382 MHz vs 1278 MHz
  • 1024x more pipelines: 4096 vs 4
Core clock speed 1382 MHz vs 1278 MHz
Pipelines 4096 vs 4

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: Apple A14 Bionic
GPU 2: AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition

GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
13095
12980
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
13095
12980
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
7440
3718
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
7440
3718
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
6721
3356
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
6721
3356
Name Apple A14 Bionic AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 13095 12980
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 13095 12980
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 7440 3718
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 7440 3718
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 6721 3356
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 6721 3356
PassMark - G3D Mark 13226
PassMark - G2D Mark 748
Geekbench - OpenCL 75923
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 190.25
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 3611.018
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 17.789
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 181.113
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 1373.944
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 7074

Compare specifications (specs)

Apple A14 Bionic AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition

Essentials

Launch date 23 Oct 2020 27 June 2017
Place in performance rating 212 210
Architecture GCN 5.0
Code name Vega 10
Launch price (MSRP) $999
Price now $999.99
Type Desktop
Value for money (0-100) 14.37

Technical info

Core clock speed 1278 MHz 1382 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 5 nm 14 nm
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance 654 GFLOPS
Pipelines 4 4096
Render output units 16
Boost clock speed 1600 MHz
Floating-point performance 13,107 gflops
Texture fill rate 409.6 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 300 Watt
Transistor count 12,500 million

Memory

Memory bandwidth 34.1 GB/s 483.8 GB / s
Memory bus width 64 bit 2048 Bit
Memory type LPDDR4X-4266 HBM2
Maximum RAM amount 16 GB
Memory clock speed 1890 MHz

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 3.0 x16
Length 267 mm
Supplementary power connectors 2x 8-pin

API support

DirectX 12.0 (12_1)
OpenGL 4.6