Apple M2 8-core vs AMD Radeon HD 6450A

Comparative analysis of Apple M2 8-core and AMD Radeon HD 6450A 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, PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark.

Apple M2 8-core

AMD Radeon HD 6450A

Differences

Reasons to consider the Apple M2 8-core

Videocard is newer: launch date 11 year(s) 3 month(s) later
2.2x more core clock speed: 1398 MHz vs 625 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 5 nm vs 40 nm

Launch date	15 Jul 2022 vs 7 April 2011
Core clock speed	1398 MHz vs 625 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	5 nm vs 40 nm

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 6450A

20x more pipelines: 160 vs 8

Pipelines	160 vs 8

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: Apple M2 8-core
GPU 2: AMD Radeon HD 6450A

Name	Apple M2 8-core	AMD Radeon HD 6450A
Geekbench - OpenCL	26644
PassMark - G3D Mark		260
PassMark - G2D Mark		208

Compare specifications (specs)

	Apple M2 8-core	AMD Radeon HD 6450A
Essentials
Launch date	15 Jul 2022	7 April 2011
Place in performance rating	850	847
Architecture		TeraScale 2
Code name		Caicos
Type		Desktop
Technical info
Core clock speed	1398 MHz	625 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	5 nm	40 nm
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance	2.863 TFLOPS
Pipelines	8	160
Render output units	32
Texture Units	10 Watt
Floating-point performance		200 gflops
Texture fill rate		5 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)		25 Watt
Transistor count		370 million
Memory
Memory bandwidth	102.4 GB/s	8.53 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 bit	64 Bit
Memory type	LPDDR5-6400	DDR3
Maximum RAM amount		512 MB
Memory clock speed		1066 MHz
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors		No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface		MXM-A (3.0)
API support
DirectX		11.2 (11_0)
OpenGL		4.4