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.

Apple A14 Bionic

AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition

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		13040
PassMark - G2D Mark		737
Geekbench - OpenCL		76041
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