Apple M1 Ultra 48-core vs AMD Radeon RX Vega 64

Comparative analysis of Apple M1 Ultra 48-core and AMD Radeon RX Vega 64 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, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

Apple M1 Ultra 48-core

AMD Radeon RX Vega 64

Differences

Reasons to consider the Apple M1 Ultra 48-core

Videocard is newer: launch date 4 year(s) 7 month(s) later
Around 4% higher core clock speed: 1296 MHz vs 1247 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 5 nm vs 14 nm
2.5x lower typical power consumption: 120 Watt vs 295 Watt

Launch date	18 Mar 2022 vs 7 August 2017
Core clock speed	1296 MHz vs 1247 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	5 nm vs 14 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	120 Watt vs 295 Watt

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX Vega 64

170.7x more pipelines: 8192 vs 48
2.2x better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 204168 vs 94065

Specifications (specs)
Pipelines	8192 vs 48
Benchmarks
Geekbench - OpenCL	204168 vs 94065

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: Apple M1 Ultra 48-core
GPU 2: AMD Radeon RX Vega 64

Geekbench - OpenCL

GPU 1

GPU 2

94065

204168

Name	Apple M1 Ultra 48-core	AMD Radeon RX Vega 64
Geekbench - OpenCL	94065	204168
PassMark - G3D Mark		14337
PassMark - G2D Mark		799
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)		195.478
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)		2129.009
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)		14.889
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)		129.271
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)		1328.033
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)		14744
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)		3717
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		3358
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)		14744
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)		3717
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		3358
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score		7522

Compare specifications (specs)

	Apple M1 Ultra 48-core	AMD Radeon RX Vega 64
Essentials
Launch date	18 Mar 2022	7 August 2017
Place in performance rating	183	182
Architecture		GCN 5.0
Code name		Vega 10
Design		Radeon RX Vega Series
Launch price (MSRP)		$499
Price now		$449.99
Type		Desktop
Value for money (0-100)		41.07
Technical info
Core clock speed	1296 MHz	1247 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	5 nm	14 nm
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance	15.925 TFLOPS	13.4 TFLOPs
Pipelines	48	8192
Render output units	192	64
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	120 Watt	295 Watt
Boost clock speed		1546 MHz
Compute units		64
Floating-point performance		12.7 TFLOPs
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance		840 GFLOPs
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance		26.7 TFLOPs
Pixel fill rate		98.90 GP/s
Stream Processors		4096
Texture fill rate		395.80 GTexel/s
Texture Units		256
Transistor count		12,500 million
Memory
Memory bandwidth	819.2 GB/s	483.8 GB/s
Memory bus width	1024 bit	2048 bit
Memory type	LPDDR5-6400	HBM2
Maximum RAM amount		8 GB
Memory clock speed		1890 MHz
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors		1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
DisplayPort support
Dual-link DVI support
HDMI
VGA
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface		PCIe 3.0 x16
Length		279 mm
Recommended system power (PSU)		750 Watt
Supplementary power connectors		2x 8-pin
API support
DirectX		12
OpenCL		2.0
OpenGL		4.5
Vulkan
Technologies
AMD Eyefinity
AMD Radeon™ Chill
AMD Radeon™ ReLive
FreeSync
PowerTune
TressFX
TrueAudio
Unified Video Decoder (UVD)
Video Code Engine (VCE)
Virtual Super Resolution (VSR)
VR Ready
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