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.

 

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 80483
PassMark - G3D Mark 9580
PassMark - G2D Mark 799
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 234 236
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)