Apple M1 8-core vs AMD Radeon Pro 570

Comparative analysis of Apple M1 8-core and AMD Radeon Pro 570 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).

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the Apple M1 8-core

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 3 year(s) 5 month(s) later
  • Around 28% higher core clock speed: 1278 MHz vs 1000 MHz
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 5 nm vs 14 nm
  • 12x lower typical power consumption: 10 Watt vs 120 Watt
  • 2x more maximum memory size: 8 GB vs 4 GB
  • Around 36% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames): 10433 vs 7664
  • Around 36% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps): 10433 vs 7664
  • Around 59% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames): 3723 vs 2340
  • Around 59% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps): 3723 vs 2340
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 10 Nov 2020 vs 5 June 2017
Core clock speed 1278 MHz vs 1000 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 5 nm vs 14 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 10 Watt vs 120 Watt
Maximum memory size 8 GB vs 4 GB
Benchmarks
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 10433 vs 7664
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 10433 vs 7664
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3723 vs 2340
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3723 vs 2340
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3364 vs 3351
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3364 vs 3351

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon Pro 570

  • 224x more pipelines: 1792 vs 8
  • Around 61% better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 30300 vs 18770
Specifications (specs)
Pipelines 1792 vs 8
Benchmarks
Geekbench - OpenCL 30300 vs 18770

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: Apple M1 8-core
GPU 2: AMD Radeon Pro 570

Geekbench - OpenCL
GPU 1
GPU 2
18770
30300
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
10433
7664
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
10433
7664
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3723
2340
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3723
2340
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3364
3351
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3364
3351
Name Apple M1 8-core AMD Radeon Pro 570
Geekbench - OpenCL 18770 30300
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 10433 7664
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 10433 7664
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3723 2340
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3723 2340
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3364 3351
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3364 3351
PassMark - G3D Mark 6337
PassMark - G2D Mark 697
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 74.958
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 1070.209
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 6.94
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 89.457
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 436.958

Compare specifications (specs)

Apple M1 8-core AMD Radeon Pro 570

Essentials

Launch date 10 Nov 2020 5 June 2017
Place in performance rating 419 421
Type Desktop, Laptop Workstation
Architecture GCN 4.0
Code name Polaris 20

Technical info

Core clock speed 1278 MHz 1000 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 5 nm 14 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance 650 GFLOPS
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance 5200 GFLOPS
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance 2.617 TFLOPS
Pipelines 8 1792
Render output units 32
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 10 Watt 120 Watt
Boost clock speed 1105 MHz
Floating-point performance 3,584 gflops
Texture fill rate 112.0 GTexel / s
Transistor count 5,700 million

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 8 GB 4 GB
Memory bandwidth 66.67 GB/s 217.6 GB / s
Memory bus width 128 bit 256 Bit
Memory type LPDDR4X-4266 GDDR5
Memory clock speed 6800 MHz

Technologies

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

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors No outputs

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 3.0 x16
Length 241 mm
Supplementary power connectors None

API support

DirectX 12.0 (12_0)
OpenGL 4.5