Apple M1 Ultra 48-core vs AMD Radeon Pro Vega II

Comparative analysis of Apple M1 Ultra 48-core and AMD Radeon Pro Vega II videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Memory, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Technologies. 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.

Apple M1 Ultra 48-core

AMD Radeon Pro Vega II

Differences

Reasons to consider the Apple M1 Ultra 48-core

Videocard is newer: launch date 2 year(s) 3 month(s) later
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 5 nm vs 7 nm
4x lower typical power consumption: 120 Watt vs 475 Watt

Launch date	18 Mar 2022 vs Dec 2019
Manufacturing process technology	5 nm vs 7 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	120 Watt vs 475 Watt

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon Pro Vega II

Around 21% higher core clock speed: 1574 MHz vs 1296 MHz
85.3x more pipelines: 4096 vs 48
Around 5% better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 99586 vs 94731

Specifications (specs)
Core clock speed	1574 MHz vs 1296 MHz
Pipelines	4096 vs 48
Benchmarks
Geekbench - OpenCL	99586 vs 94731

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: Apple M1 Ultra 48-core
GPU 2: AMD Radeon Pro Vega II

Geekbench - OpenCL

GPU 1

GPU 2

94731

99586

Name	Apple M1 Ultra 48-core	AMD Radeon Pro Vega II
Geekbench - OpenCL	94731	99586
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)		16149
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)		16149
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)		3100
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)		3100
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		2813
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		2813
PassMark - G2D Mark		748
PassMark - G3D Mark		15597

Compare specifications (specs)

	Apple M1 Ultra 48-core	AMD Radeon Pro Vega II
Essentials
Launch date	18 Mar 2022	Dec 2019
Place in performance rating	178	174
Architecture		GCN 5.1
Code name		Vega 20
Type		Laptop
Technical info
Core clock speed	1296 MHz	1574 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	5 nm	7 nm
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance	15.925 TFLOPS	14.09 TFLOPS
Pipelines	48	4096
Render output units	192
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	120 Watt	475 Watt
Boost clock speed		1720 MHz
Compute units		64
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance		880.6 GFLOPS (1:16)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance		28.18 TFLOPS (2:1)
Pixel fill rate		110.1 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate		440.3 GTexel/s
Transistor count		13230 million
Memory
Memory bandwidth	819.2 GB/s	825.3 GB/s
Memory bus width	1024 bit	4096 bit
Memory type	LPDDR5-6400	HBM2
High bandwidth memory (HBM)
Maximum RAM amount		32 GB
Memory clock speed		1612 MHz
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors		1x HDMI, 4x mini-DisplayPort
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface		PCIe 3.0 x16
Recommended system power (PSU)		850 Watt
Supplementary power connectors		None
Width		Dual-slot
API support
DirectX		12.1
OpenCL		2.0
OpenGL		4.6
Shader Model		6.4
Vulkan
Technologies
Unified Video Decoder (UVD)
Video Code Engine (VCE)