Apple M1 Pro 14-core vs AMD Radeon 780M

Comparative analysis of Apple M1 Pro 14-core and AMD Radeon 780M 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 Pro 14-core

AMD Radeon 780M

Differences

Reasons to consider the Apple M1 Pro 14-core

Around 44% better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 39965 vs 27793

Benchmarks
Geekbench - OpenCL	39965 vs 27793

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon 780M

Videocard is newer: launch date 1 year(s) 2 month(s) later
Around 16% higher core clock speed: 1500 MHz vs 1296 MHz
54.9x more pipelines: 768 vs 14
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 4 nm vs 5 nm

Launch date	4 Jan 2023 vs 26 Oct 2021
Core clock speed	1500 MHz vs 1296 MHz
Pipelines	768 vs 14
Manufacturing process technology	4 nm vs 5 nm

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: Apple M1 Pro 14-core
GPU 2: AMD Radeon 780M

Geekbench - OpenCL

GPU 1

GPU 2

39965

27793

Name	Apple M1 Pro 14-core	AMD Radeon 780M
Geekbench - OpenCL	39965	27793
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	20379
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	20379
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		879
PassMark - G3D Mark		6998
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score		480

Compare specifications (specs)

	Apple M1 Pro 14-core	AMD Radeon 780M
Essentials
Launch date	26 Oct 2021	4 Jan 2023
Place in performance rating	163	240
Architecture		RDNA 3.0
Code name		Phoenix
Technical info
Core clock speed	1296 MHz	1500 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	5 nm	4 nm
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance	4.644 TFLOPS
Pipelines	14	768
Render output units	56
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	15 Watt	15 Watt
Boost clock speed		2900 MHz
Compute units		12
Pixel fill rate		92.80 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate		139.2 GTexel/s
Memory
Memory bandwidth	204.8 GB/s	System Dependent
Memory bus width	256 bit	System Shared
Memory type	LPDDR5-6400	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