Apple M2 Max 30-core vs AMD Radeon R7 M380

Comparative analysis of Apple M2 Max 30-core and AMD Radeon R7 M380 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 - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the Apple M2 Max 30-core

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 7 year(s) 8 month(s) later
  • Around 55% higher core clock speed: 1398 MHz vs 900 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 5 May 2015
Core clock speed 1398 MHz vs 900 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 5 nm vs 28 nm

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon R7 M380

  • 21.3x more pipelines: 640 vs 30
Pipelines 640 vs 30

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: Apple M2 Max 30-core
GPU 2: AMD Radeon R7 M380

Name Apple M2 Max 30-core AMD Radeon R7 M380
Geekbench - OpenCL 80168
PassMark - G2D Mark 534
PassMark - G3D Mark 1669

Compare specifications (specs)

Apple M2 Max 30-core AMD Radeon R7 M380

Essentials

Launch date 17 Jan 2023 5 May 2015
Place in performance rating 235 240
Architecture GCN 1.0
Code name Tropo
Design AMD Radeon R7 300 Series
Type Desktop

Technical info

Core clock speed 1398 MHz 900 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 5 nm 28 nm
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance 10.736 TFLOPS
Pipelines 30 640
Render output units 120
Boost clock speed 915 MHz
Compute units 10
Floating-point performance 1,171 gflops
Texture fill rate 36.6 GTexel / s
Transistor count 1,500 million

Memory

Memory bandwidth 409.6 GB/s 32 GB / s
Memory bus width 512 bit 128 bit
Memory type LPDDR5-6400 DDR3
Maximum RAM amount 4 GB
Memory clock speed 1000 MHz
Shared memory 0

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors No outputs
Eyefinity

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Bus support PCIe 3.0
Interface PCIe 3.0 x16
Laptop size medium sized

API support

DirectX 12
Mantle
OpenCL Not Listed
OpenGL 4.4
Vulkan

Technologies

AMD Eyefinity
AppAcceleration
DualGraphics
Enduro
FreeSync
HD3D
PowerTune
Switchable graphics
ZeroCore