Apple M2 Max 30-core vs AMD Radeon Pro Vega 48

Comparative analysis of Apple M2 Max 30-core and AMD Radeon Pro Vega 48 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Memory, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Technologies. 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 - 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).

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the Apple M2 Max 30-core

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 3 year(s) 9 month(s) later
  • Around 17% higher core clock speed: 1398 MHz vs 1200 MHz
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 5 nm vs 14 nm
  • Around 50% better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 80552 vs 53770
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 17 Jan 2023 vs 19 March 2019
Core clock speed 1398 MHz vs 1200 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 5 nm vs 14 nm
Benchmarks
Geekbench - OpenCL 80552 vs 53770

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon Pro Vega 48

  • 102.4x more pipelines: 3072 vs 30
Pipelines 3072 vs 30

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: Apple M2 Max 30-core
GPU 2: AMD Radeon Pro Vega 48

Geekbench - OpenCL
GPU 1
GPU 2
80552
53770
Name Apple M2 Max 30-core AMD Radeon Pro Vega 48
Geekbench - OpenCL 80552 53770
PassMark - G3D Mark 11300
PassMark - G2D Mark 784
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 135.416
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 3063.269
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 12.678
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 883.876
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 11925
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3947
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 10411
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 11925
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3947
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 10411

Compare specifications (specs)

Apple M2 Max 30-core AMD Radeon Pro Vega 48

Essentials

Launch date 17 Jan 2023 19 March 2019
Place in performance rating 235 236
Architecture Vega 10 PRO
Code name Greenland
GCN generation GCN 5.0
Type Desktop

Technical info

Core clock speed 1398 MHz 1200 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 5 nm 14 nm
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance 10.736 TFLOPS 7.987 TFLOPS
Pipelines 30 3072
Render output units 120
Boost clock speed 1300 MHz
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance 499.2 GFLOPS
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance 15.97 TFLOPS
Pixel fill rate 83.20 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate 249.6 GTexel/s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 12500 million

Memory

Memory bandwidth 409.6 GB/s 402.4 GB/s
Memory bus width 512 bit 2048 bit
Memory type LPDDR5-6400 HBM2
High bandwidth memory (HBM)
Maximum RAM amount 8 GB
Memory clock speed 786 MHz (1572 MHz effective)

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors No outputs

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 3.0 x16

API support

DirectX 12.1
OpenCL 2.0
OpenGL 4.6
Shader Model 6.3
Vulkan

Technologies

Unified Video Decoder (UVD)
Video Code Engine (VCE)