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).

Apple M2 Max 30-core

AMD Radeon Pro Vega 48

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: 80483 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	80483 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

80483

53770

Name	Apple M2 Max 30-core	AMD Radeon Pro Vega 48
Geekbench - OpenCL	80483	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	234	237
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)