Apple M1 Pro 14-core vs AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT

Comparative analysis of Apple M1 Pro 14-core and AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT 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 RX 6500 XT

Differences

Reasons to consider the Apple M1 Pro 14-core

A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 5 nm vs 6 nm
7.1x lower typical power consumption: 15 Watt vs 107 Watt

Manufacturing process technology	5 nm vs 6 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	15 Watt vs 107 Watt

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT

Videocard is newer: launch date 2 month(s) later
Around 78% higher core clock speed: 2310 MHz vs 1296 MHz
73.1x more pipelines: 1024 vs 14
Around 22% better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 48536 vs 39771

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	19 Jan 2022 vs 26 Oct 2021
Core clock speed	2310 MHz vs 1296 MHz
Pipelines	1024 vs 14
Benchmarks
Geekbench - OpenCL	48536 vs 39771

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: Apple M1 Pro 14-core
GPU 2: AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT

Geekbench - OpenCL

GPU 1

GPU 2

39771

48536

Name	Apple M1 Pro 14-core	AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT
Geekbench - OpenCL	39771	48536
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		812
PassMark - G3D Mark		9568
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score		4917

Compare specifications (specs)

	Apple M1 Pro 14-core	AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT
Essentials
Launch date	26 Oct 2021	19 Jan 2022
Place in performance rating	163	164
Architecture		RDNA 2.0
Code name		Navi 24
Technical info
Core clock speed	1296 MHz	2310 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	5 nm	6 nm
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance	4.644 TFLOPS	5.765 TFLOPS
Pipelines	14	1024
Render output units	56
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	15 Watt	107 Watt
Boost clock speed		2815 MHz
Compute units		16
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance		360.3 GFLOPS (1:16)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance		11.53 TFLOPS (2:1)
Pixel fill rate		90.08 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate		180.2 GTexel/s
Transistor count		5400 million
Memory
Memory bandwidth	204.8 GB/s	143.9 GB/s
Memory bus width	256 bit	64 bit
Memory type	LPDDR5-6400	GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount		4 GB
Memory clock speed		2248 MHz, 18 Gbps effective
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors		1x HDMI 2.1, 1x DisplayPort 1.4a
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Form factor		Dual-slot
Interface		PCIe 4.0 x4
Recommended system power (PSU)		300 Watt
Supplementary power connectors		1x 6-pin
API support
DirectX		12 Ultimate (12_2)
OpenCL		2.2
OpenGL		4.6
Shader Model		6.7
Vulkan