Apple M2 Max 30-core vs AMD Radeon HD 7850M

Comparative analysis of Apple M2 Max 30-core and AMD Radeon HD 7850M 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 Max 30-core

AMD Radeon HD 7850M

Differences

Reasons to consider the Apple M2 Max 30-core

Videocard is newer: launch date 10 year(s) 8 month(s) later
2.1x more core clock speed: 1398 MHz vs 675 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 5 nm vs 28 nm

Launch date	17 Jan 2023 vs 24 April 2012
Core clock speed	1398 MHz vs 675 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	5 nm vs 28 nm

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 7850M

21.3x more pipelines: 640 vs 30

Pipelines	640 vs 30

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: Apple M2 Max 30-core
GPU 2: AMD Radeon HD 7850M

Name	Apple M2 Max 30-core	AMD Radeon HD 7850M
Geekbench - OpenCL	80483
PassMark - G3D Mark		1373
PassMark - G2D Mark		566

Compare specifications (specs)

	Apple M2 Max 30-core	AMD Radeon HD 7850M
Essentials
Launch date	17 Jan 2023	24 April 2012
Place in performance rating	234	231
Architecture		GCN 1.0
Code name		Heathrow
Type		Laptop
Technical info
Core clock speed	1398 MHz	675 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	5 nm	28 nm
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance	10.736 TFLOPS
Pipelines	30	640
Render output units	120
Floating-point performance		864.0 gflops
Texture fill rate		27 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)		40 Watt
Transistor count		1,500 million
Memory
Memory bandwidth	409.6 GB/s	64 GB / s
Memory bus width	512 bit	128 Bit
Memory type	LPDDR5-6400	GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount		2 GB
Memory clock speed		4000 MHz
Shared memory		0
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors		No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface		PCIe 3.0 x16
Laptop size		large
API support
DirectX		12.0 (11_1)
OpenGL		4.5