Apple M1 Ultra 48-core vs AMD Radeon R9 295X2

Comparative analysis of Apple M1 Ultra 48-core and AMD Radeon R9 295X2 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, PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

Apple M1 Ultra 48-core

AMD Radeon R9 295X2

Differences

Reasons to consider the Apple M1 Ultra 48-core

Videocard is newer: launch date 7 year(s) 10 month(s) later
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 5 nm vs 28 nm
4.2x lower typical power consumption: 120 Watt vs 500 Watt

Launch date	18 Mar 2022 vs 29 April 2014
Manufacturing process technology	5 nm vs 28 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	120 Watt vs 500 Watt

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon R9 295X2

117.3x more pipelines: 2x 2816 vs 48

Pipelines	2x 2816 vs 48

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: Apple M1 Ultra 48-core
GPU 2: AMD Radeon R9 295X2

Name	Apple M1 Ultra 48-core	AMD Radeon R9 295X2
Geekbench - OpenCL	94065
PassMark - G3D Mark		8618
PassMark - G2D Mark		765
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score		0

Compare specifications (specs)

	Apple M1 Ultra 48-core	AMD Radeon R9 295X2
Essentials
Launch date	18 Mar 2022	29 April 2014
Place in performance rating	183	180
Architecture		GCN 2.0
Code name		Vesuvius
Design		AMD Radeon R9 200 Series
Launch price (MSRP)		$1,499
Price now		$1,099.99
Type		Desktop
Value for money (0-100)		11.14
Technical info
Core clock speed	1296 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	5 nm	28 nm
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance	15.925 TFLOPS
Pipelines	48	2x 2816
Render output units	192
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	120 Watt	500 Watt
Boost clock speed		1018 MHz
Floating-point performance		2x 5,733 gflops
Stream Processors		5632
Texture fill rate		2x 179.2 GTexel / s billion / sec
Transistor count		6,200 million
Memory
Memory bandwidth	819.2 GB/s	640 GB/s
Memory bus width	1024 bit	2x 512 Bit
Memory type	LPDDR5-6400	GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount		8 GB
Memory clock speed		1250 MHz
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors		1x DVI, 4x mini-DisplayPort
DisplayPort support
Dual-link DVI support
Eyefinity
HDMI
VGA
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Bus support		PCIe 2.1 x16
Interface		PCIe 3.0 x16
Length		307 mm
Supplementary power connectors		2 x 8-pin
API support
DirectX		12
OpenGL		4.5
Vulkan
Technologies
AMD Eyefinity
CrossFire
DDMA audio
FreeSync
HD3D
LiquidVR
TressFX
Unified Video Decoder (UVD)