Apple M1 Ultra 48-core vs AMD Radeon R9 270 1024SP

Comparative analysis of Apple M1 Ultra 48-core and AMD Radeon R9 270 1024SP 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).

Apple M1 Ultra 48-core

AMD Radeon R9 270 1024SP

Differences

Reasons to consider the Apple M1 Ultra 48-core

Videocard is newer: launch date 7 year(s) 0 month(s) later
Around 44% higher core clock speed: 1296 MHz vs 900 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 5 nm vs 28 nm
Around 25% lower typical power consumption: 120 Watt vs 150 Watt
Around 35% better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 94990 vs 70535

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	18 Mar 2022 vs 13 March 2015
Core clock speed	1296 MHz vs 900 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	5 nm vs 28 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	120 Watt vs 150 Watt
Benchmarks
Geekbench - OpenCL	94990 vs 70535

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon R9 270 1024SP

21.3x more pipelines: 1024 vs 48

Pipelines	1024 vs 48

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: Apple M1 Ultra 48-core
GPU 2: AMD Radeon R9 270 1024SP

Geekbench - OpenCL

GPU 1

GPU 2

94990

70535

Name	Apple M1 Ultra 48-core	AMD Radeon R9 270 1024SP
Geekbench - OpenCL	94990	70535
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)		6316
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)		6316
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)		8390
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)		8390
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		27566
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		27566

Compare specifications (specs)

	Apple M1 Ultra 48-core	AMD Radeon R9 270 1024SP
Essentials
Launch date	18 Mar 2022	13 March 2015
Place in performance rating	175	174
Architecture		GCN 1.0
Code name		Pitcairn
Type		Desktop
Technical info
Core clock speed	1296 MHz	900 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	5 nm	28 nm
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance	15.925 TFLOPS
Pipelines	48	1024
Render output units	192
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	120 Watt	150 Watt
Boost clock speed		925 MHz
Floating-point performance		1,894 gflops
Texture fill rate		59.2 GTexel / s
Transistor count		2,800 million
Memory
Memory bandwidth	819.2 GB/s	153.6 GB / s
Memory bus width	1024 bit	256 Bit
Memory type	LPDDR5-6400	GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount		2 GB
Memory clock speed		4800 MHz
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors		2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface		PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors		1x 6-pin
API support
DirectX		12.0 (11_1)
OpenGL		4.5