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

Comparative analysis of Apple M1 Ultra 48-core and AMD Radeon Pro Vega II Duo 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.

 

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 Duo

  • Around 21% higher core clock speed: 1574 MHz vs 1296 MHz
  • 170.7x more pipelines: 8192 vs 48
  • Around 5% better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 99246 vs 94450
Specifications (specs)
Core clock speed 1574 MHz vs 1296 MHz
Pipelines 8192 vs 48
Benchmarks
Geekbench - OpenCL 99246 vs 94450

Compare benchmarks

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

Geekbench - OpenCL
GPU 1
GPU 2
94450
99246
Name Apple M1 Ultra 48-core AMD Radeon Pro Vega II Duo
Geekbench - OpenCL 94450 99246
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 14208
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 14208
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3713
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3713
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3359
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3359
PassMark - G2D Mark 858
PassMark - G3D Mark 14018

Compare specifications (specs)

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

Essentials

Launch date 18 Mar 2022 Dec 2019
Place in performance rating 178 175
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 8192
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 64 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)