Apple A17 Pro vs AMD Radeon 740M

Comparative analysis of Apple A17 Pro and AMD Radeon 740M 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: PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL.

Apple A17 Pro

AMD Radeon 740M

Differences

Reasons to consider the Apple A17 Pro

Videocard is newer: launch date 7 month(s) later

Launch date	Sep 2023 vs 4 Jan 2023

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon 740M

Around 7% higher core clock speed: 1500 MHz vs 1398 MHz
42.7x more pipelines: 256 vs 6
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 4 nm vs 5 nm

Core clock speed	1500 MHz vs 1398 MHz
Pipelines	256 vs 6
Manufacturing process technology	4 nm vs 5 nm

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: Apple A17 Pro
GPU 2: AMD Radeon 740M

Name	Apple A17 Pro	AMD Radeon 740M
PassMark - G2D Mark		778
PassMark - G3D Mark		3491
Geekbench - OpenCL		9461

Compare specifications (specs)

	Apple A17 Pro	AMD Radeon 740M
Essentials
Launch date	Sep 2023	4 Jan 2023
Place in performance rating	not rated	220
Architecture		RDNA 3.0
Code name		Phoenix
Technical info
Core clock speed	1398 MHz	1500 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	5 nm	4 nm
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance	2.147 TFLOPS
Pipelines	6	256
Render output units	20
Boost clock speed		2500 MHz
Compute units		4
Pixel fill rate		20.00 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate		40.00 GTexel/s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)		15 Watt
Transistor count		25390 million
Memory
Memory bandwidth	51.2 GB/s	System Dependent
Memory bus width	64 bit	System Shared
Memory type	LPDDR4X-4266	System Shared
Maximum RAM amount		System Shared
Memory clock speed		System Shared
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors		Portable Device Dependent
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Form factor		IGP
Interface		PCIe 4.0 x8
Supplementary power connectors		None
API support
DirectX		12 Ultimate (12_2)
OpenCL		2.1
OpenGL		4.6
Shader Model		6.7
Vulkan