Apple M2 8-core vs AMD Radeon Vega 11

Comparative analysis of Apple M2 8-core and AMD Radeon Vega 11 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Memory, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements. 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 M2 8-core

AMD Radeon Vega 11

Differences

Reasons to consider the Apple M2 8-core

Videocard is newer: launch date 4 year(s) 5 month(s) later
4.7x more core clock speed: 1398 MHz vs 300 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 5 nm vs 14 nm
2x better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 26315 vs 13016

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	15 Jul 2022 vs 13 February 2018
Core clock speed	1398 MHz vs 300 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	5 nm vs 14 nm
Benchmarks
Geekbench - OpenCL	26315 vs 13016

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon Vega 11

88x more pipelines: 704 vs 8

Pipelines	704 vs 8

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: Apple M2 8-core
GPU 2: AMD Radeon Vega 11

Geekbench - OpenCL

GPU 1

GPU 2

26315

13016

Name	Apple M2 8-core	AMD Radeon Vega 11
Geekbench - OpenCL	26315	13016
PassMark - G3D Mark		1837
PassMark - G2D Mark		490
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)		41.582
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)		371.843
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)		3.156
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)		52.449
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)		248.838
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)		2156
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)		2475
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		3343
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)		2156
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)		2475
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		3343
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score		0

Compare specifications (specs)

	Apple M2 8-core	AMD Radeon Vega 11
Essentials
Launch date	15 Jul 2022	13 February 2018
Place in performance rating	894	895
Architecture		GCN 5.0
Code name		Owl
Type		Desktop
Technical info
Core clock speed	1398 MHz	300 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	5 nm	14 nm
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance	2.863 TFLOPS
Pipelines	8	704
Render output units	32
Texture Units	10 Watt
Boost clock speed		1300 MHz
Floating-point performance		1,830 gflops
Texture fill rate		57.2 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)		35 Watt
Transistor count		4,940 million
Memory
Memory bandwidth	102.4 GB/s
Memory bus width	128 bit
Memory type	LPDDR5-6400	System Shared
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors		No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface		IGP
Supplementary power connectors		None