Apple M2 8-core vs AMD Radeon R5 340 OEM

Comparative analysis of Apple M2 8-core and AMD Radeon R5 340 OEM 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 - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark, 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 M2 8-core

AMD Radeon R5 340 OEM

Differences

Reasons to consider the Apple M2 8-core

Videocard is newer: launch date 7 year(s) 2 month(s) later
Around 92% higher core clock speed: 1398 MHz vs 730 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 5 nm vs 28 nm
4.7x better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 26316 vs 5635

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	15 Jul 2022 vs 5 May 2015
Core clock speed	1398 MHz vs 730 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	5 nm vs 28 nm
Benchmarks
Geekbench - OpenCL	26316 vs 5635

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon R5 340 OEM

48x more pipelines: 384 vs 8

Pipelines	384 vs 8

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: Apple M2 8-core
GPU 2: AMD Radeon R5 340 OEM

Geekbench - OpenCL

GPU 1

GPU 2

26316

5635

Name	Apple M2 8-core	AMD Radeon R5 340 OEM
Geekbench - OpenCL	26316	5635
PassMark - G2D Mark		338
PassMark - G3D Mark		935
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)		1935
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)		1935
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)		2380
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)		2380
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		3354
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		3354

Compare specifications (specs)

	Apple M2 8-core	AMD Radeon R5 340 OEM
Essentials
Launch date	15 Jul 2022	5 May 2015
Place in performance rating	893	895
Architecture		GCN 1.0
Code name		Oland
Type		Desktop
Technical info
Core clock speed	1398 MHz	730 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	5 nm	28 nm
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance	2.863 TFLOPS
Pipelines	8	384
Render output units	32
Texture Units	10 Watt
Boost clock speed		780 MHz
Floating-point performance		599.0 gflops
Texture fill rate		18.72 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)		65 Watt
Transistor count		1,040 million
Memory
Memory bandwidth	102.4 GB/s	73.6 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 bit	128 Bit
Memory type	LPDDR5-6400	GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount		2 GB
Memory clock speed		4600 MHz
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors		1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface		PCIe 3.0 x8
Supplementary power connectors		None
API support
DirectX		12.0 (11_1)
OpenGL		4.5