Apple M1 8-core vs AMD Radeon R9 M395 Mac Edition

Comparative analysis of Apple M1 8-core and AMD Radeon R9 M395 Mac Edition 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 - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D 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).

Apple M1 8-core

AMD Radeon R9 M395 Mac Edition

Differences

Reasons to consider the Apple M1 8-core

Videocard is newer: launch date 5 year(s) 6 month(s) later
Around 53% higher core clock speed: 1278 MHz vs 834 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 5 nm vs 28 nm
25x lower typical power consumption: 10 Watt vs 250 Watt
2x more maximum memory size: 8 GB vs 4 GB

Launch date	10 Nov 2020 vs 5 May 2015
Core clock speed	1278 MHz vs 834 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	5 nm vs 28 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	10 Watt vs 250 Watt
Maximum memory size	8 GB vs 4 GB

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon R9 M395 Mac Edition

224x more pipelines: 1792 vs 8
Around 26% better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 23587 vs 18770

Specifications (specs)
Pipelines	1792 vs 8
Benchmarks
Geekbench - OpenCL	23587 vs 18770

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: Apple M1 8-core
GPU 2: AMD Radeon R9 M395 Mac Edition

Geekbench - OpenCL

GPU 1

GPU 2

18770

23587

Name	Apple M1 8-core	AMD Radeon R9 M395 Mac Edition
Geekbench - OpenCL	18770	23587
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	10433
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	10433
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	3723
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	3723
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3364
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3364
PassMark - G2D Mark		745
PassMark - G3D Mark		5024
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)		56.272
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)		778.867
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)		5.051
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)		65.535
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)		336.811

Compare specifications (specs)

	Apple M1 8-core	AMD Radeon R9 M395 Mac Edition
Essentials
Launch date	10 Nov 2020	5 May 2015
Place in performance rating	419	422
Type	Desktop, Laptop	Desktop
Architecture		GCN 2.0
Code name		Grenada
Design		AMD Radeon R9 300 Series
Technical info
Core clock speed	1278 MHz	834 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	5 nm	28 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	250 Watt
Floating-point performance		2,989 gflops
Texture fill rate		93.41 GTexel / s
Transistor count		6,200 million
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	8 GB	4 GB
Memory bandwidth	66.67 GB/s	174.7 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 bit	256 bit
Memory type	LPDDR4X-4266	GDDR5
Memory clock speed		5460 MHz
Technologies
4K H264 Decode
4K H264 Encode
H265/HEVC Decode
H265/HEVC Encode
AMD Eyefinity
DualGraphics
PowerTune
Switchable graphics
TrueAudio
ZeroCore
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors		No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface		MXM-B (3.0)
Supplementary power connectors		None
API support
DirectX		12
OpenGL		4.4