Apple M2 8-core vs AMD Radeon 540

Comparative analysis of Apple M2 8-core and AMD Radeon 540 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Memory, Video outputs and ports, API support, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: Geekbench - OpenCL, PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark, GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps).

Apple M2 8-core

AMD Radeon 540

Differences

Reasons to consider the Apple M2 8-core

Videocard is newer: launch date 5 year(s) 2 month(s) later

Launch date	15 Jul 2022 vs 18 April 2017

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon 540

Around 34% better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 35524 vs 26607

Benchmarks
Geekbench - OpenCL	35524 vs 26607

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: Apple M2 8-core
GPU 2: AMD Radeon 540

Geekbench - OpenCL

GPU 1

GPU 2

26607

35524

Name	Apple M2 8-core	AMD Radeon 540
Geekbench - OpenCL	26607	35524
PassMark - G2D Mark		249
PassMark - G3D Mark		1395
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)		2355
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)		2355
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		3354
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		3354
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)		1726
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)		1726

Compare specifications (specs)

	Apple M2 8-core	AMD Radeon 540
Essentials
Launch date	15 Jul 2022	18 April 2017
Place in performance rating	874	875
Architecture		4th Gen GCN
Code name		Topaz
Design		AMD Radeon 500 Series
GCN generation		4th Gen
Type		Notebook
Technical info
Core clock speed	1398 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	5 nm
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance	2.863 TFLOPS
Pipelines	8
Render output units	32	16
Texture Units	10 Watt	32
Boost clock speed		1124 MHz
Compute units		8
Floating-point performance		1.2 TFLOPs
Stream Processors		512
Memory
Memory bandwidth	102.4 GB/s	48 GB/s
Memory bus width	128 bit	64 bit
Memory type	LPDDR5-6400	GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount		4 GB
Memory clock speed		6 Gbps
Video outputs and ports
DisplayPort support
HDMI
API support
DirectX		12
Vulkan
Technologies
AMD Graphics Core Next (GCN) Architecture
AMD Radeon™ Chill
FreeSync
HDMI 4K Support