Apple M1 7-core vs AMD Radeon HD 7990

Comparative analysis of Apple M1 7-core and AMD Radeon HD 7990 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Memory, Technologies, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: Geekbench - OpenCL, 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, 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 M1 7-core

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 7 year(s) 6 month(s) later
  • Around 35% higher core clock speed: 1278 MHz vs 950 MHz
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 5 nm vs 28 nm
  • 26.8x lower typical power consumption: 14 Watt vs 375 Watt
  • Around 33% higher maximum memory size: 8 GB vs 2x 3 GB
  • Around 56% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames): 10433 vs 6689
  • Around 56% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps): 10433 vs 6689
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 10 Nov 2020 vs 24 April 2013
Core clock speed 1278 MHz vs 950 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 5 nm vs 28 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 14 Watt vs 375 Watt
Maximum memory size 8 GB vs 2x 3 GB
Benchmarks
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 10433 vs 6689
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 10433 vs 6689
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3723 vs 3712
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3723 vs 3712
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3364 vs 3356
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3364 vs 3356

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 7990

  • 585.1x more pipelines: 2x 2048 vs 7
Pipelines 2x 2048 vs 7

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: Apple M1 7-core
GPU 2: AMD Radeon HD 7990

GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
10433
6689
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
10433
6689
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3723
3712
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3723
3712
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3364
3356
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3364
3356
Name Apple M1 7-core AMD Radeon HD 7990
Geekbench - OpenCL 18824
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 10433 6689
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 10433 6689
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3723 3712
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3723 3712
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3364 3356
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3364 3356
PassMark - G3D Mark 5566
PassMark - G2D Mark 766
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 88.665
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 1753.494
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 8.437
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 88.328
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 434.598
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 0

Compare specifications (specs)

Apple M1 7-core AMD Radeon HD 7990

Essentials

Launch date 10 Nov 2020 24 April 2013
Place in performance rating 423 421
Type Desktop, Laptop Desktop
Architecture GCN 1.0
Code name Malta
Design AMD Radeon HD 7000 Series
Launch price (MSRP) $999
Price now $1,126.99
Value for money (0-100) 7.87

Technical info

Core clock speed 1278 MHz 950 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 5 nm 28 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance 590 GFLOPS
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance 4750 GFLOPS
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance 2.290 TFLOPS
Pipelines 7 2x 2048
Render output units 28
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 14 Watt 375 Watt
Boost clock speed 1000 MHz
Floating-point performance 2x 4,096 gflops
Texture fill rate 2x 128.0 GTexel / s billion / sec
Transistor count 4,313 million

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 8 GB 2x 3 GB
Memory bandwidth 66.67 GB/s 2x 288.0 GB / s
Memory bus width 128 bit 2x 384 Bit
Memory type LPDDR4X-4266 GDDR5
Memory clock speed 6000 MHz

Technologies

4K H264 Decode
4K H264 Encode
H265/HEVC Decode
H265/HEVC Encode

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors 1x DVI, 4x mini-DisplayPort
DisplayPort support
Dual-link DVI support
VGA

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 3.0 x16
Length 307 mm
Supplementary power connectors 2x 8-pin

API support

DirectX 11.2
OpenGL 4.5