Apple M2 Max 30-core vs AMD Radeon R9 FURY X

Comparative analysis of Apple M2 Max 30-core and AMD Radeon R9 FURY X 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 - 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 Max 30-core

AMD Radeon R9 FURY X

Differences

Reasons to consider the Apple M2 Max 30-core

Videocard is newer: launch date 7 year(s) 6 month(s) later
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 June 2015
Manufacturing process technology	5 nm vs 28 nm

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon R9 FURY X

136.5x more pipelines: 4096 vs 30

Pipelines	4096 vs 30

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: Apple M2 Max 30-core
GPU 2: AMD Radeon R9 FURY X

Name	Apple M2 Max 30-core	AMD Radeon R9 FURY X
Geekbench - OpenCL	80552
PassMark - G3D Mark		9576
PassMark - G2D Mark		796
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)		155.307
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)		3431.249
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)		12.49
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)		153.089
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)		857.575
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)		8673
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)		8925
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		3361
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)		8673
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)		8925
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		3361
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score		5170

Compare specifications (specs)

	Apple M2 Max 30-core	AMD Radeon R9 FURY X
Essentials
Launch date	17 Jan 2023	24 June 2015
Place in performance rating	235	237
Architecture		GCN 3.0
Code name		Fiji
Design		AMD Radeon R9 Fury Series
Launch price (MSRP)		$649
Type		Desktop
Technical info
Core clock speed	1398 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	5 nm	28 nm
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance	10.736 TFLOPS
Pipelines	30	4096
Render output units	120
Boost clock speed		1050 MHz
Compute units		64
Floating-point performance		8,602 gflops
Stream Processors		4096
Texture fill rate		268.8 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)		275 Watt
Transistor count		8,900 million
Memory
Memory bandwidth	409.6 GB/s	512 GB/s
Memory bus width	512 bit	4096 Bit
Memory type	LPDDR5-6400	High Bandwidth Memory (HBM)
High bandwidth memory (HBM)
Maximum RAM amount		4 GB
Memory clock speed		1050 MHz
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors		1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
DisplayPort support
Dual-link DVI support
Eyefinity
HDMI
Number of Eyefinity displays		6
VGA
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Bridgeless CrossFire
Bus support		PCIe 3.0
Interface		PCIe 3.0 x16
Length		191 mm
Supplementary power connectors		2x 8-pin
API support
DirectX		12
Mantle
OpenCL		2.0
OpenGL		4.5
Technologies
AMD Eyefinity
AppAcceleration
CrossFire
DDMA audio
FreeSync
FRTC
HD3D
LiquidVR
PowerTune
TressFX
TrueAudio
Unified Video Decoder (UVD)
Video Code Engine (VCE)
Virtual Super Resolution (VSR)