Apple M1 Max 24-core vs AMD Radeon RX 6700S

Comparative analysis of Apple M1 Max 24-core and AMD Radeon RX 6700S 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: 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, 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

Apple M1 Max 24-core

AMD Radeon RX 6700S

Differences

Reasons to consider the Apple M1 Max 24-core

A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 5 nm vs 7 nm
8x lower typical power consumption: 10 Watt vs 80 Watt
Around 4% better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 66294 vs 63559

Specifications (specs)
Manufacturing process technology	5 nm vs 7 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	10 Watt vs 80 Watt
Benchmarks
Geekbench - OpenCL	66294 vs 63559

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX 6700S

Videocard is newer: launch date 2 month(s) later
Around 31% higher core clock speed: 1700 MHz vs 1296 MHz
74.7x more pipelines: 1792 vs 24

Launch date	4 Jan 2022 vs 26 Oct 2021
Core clock speed	1700 MHz vs 1296 MHz
Pipelines	1792 vs 24

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: Apple M1 Max 24-core
GPU 2: AMD Radeon RX 6700S

Geekbench - OpenCL

GPU 1

GPU 2

66294

63559

Name	Apple M1 Max 24-core	AMD Radeon RX 6700S
Geekbench - OpenCL	66294	63559
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	25004
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	25004
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	7440
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	7440
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	6721
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	6721
PassMark - G2D Mark		734
PassMark - G3D Mark		14969
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score		7755

Compare specifications (specs)

	Apple M1 Max 24-core	AMD Radeon RX 6700S
Essentials
Launch date	26 Oct 2021	4 Jan 2022
Place in performance rating	126	125
Architecture		RDNA 2.0
Code name		Navi 23
Technical info
Core clock speed	1296 MHz	1700 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	5 nm	7 nm
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance	7.962 TFLOPS	7.168 TFLOPS
Pipelines	24	1792
Render output units	96
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	10 Watt	80 Watt
Boost clock speed		2000 MHz
Compute units		28
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance		448.0 GFLOPS (1:16)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance		14.34 TFLOPS (2:1)
Pixel fill rate		128.0 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate		224.0 GTexel/s
Transistor count		11060 million
Memory
Memory bandwidth	409.6 GB/s	224.0 GB/s
Memory bus width	512 bit	128 bit
Memory type	LPDDR5-6400	GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount		8 GB
Memory clock speed		1750 MHz, 14 Gbps effective
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