Apple M2 Max 30-core vs AMD Radeon VII

Comparative analysis of Apple M2 Max 30-core and AMD Radeon VII 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 VII

Differences

Reasons to consider the Apple M2 Max 30-core

Videocard is newer: launch date 3 year(s) 11 month(s) later
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 5 nm vs 7 nm

Launch date	17 Jan 2023 vs 7 February 2019
Manufacturing process technology	5 nm vs 7 nm

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon VII

128x more pipelines: 3840 vs 30
Around 13% better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 91645 vs 80786

Specifications (specs)
Core clock speed	1400 MHz vs 1398 MHz
Pipelines	3840 vs 30
Benchmarks
Geekbench - OpenCL	91645 vs 80786

Compare benchmarks

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

Geekbench - OpenCL

GPU 1

GPU 2

80786

91645

Name	Apple M2 Max 30-core	AMD Radeon VII
Geekbench - OpenCL	80786	91645
PassMark - G3D Mark		16392
PassMark - G2D Mark		791
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)		206.353
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)		4659.199
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)		21.606
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)		69.256
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)		499.927
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)		11724
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)		3717
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		3360
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)		11724
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)		3717
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		3360
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score		2308

Compare specifications (specs)

	Apple M2 Max 30-core	AMD Radeon VII
Essentials
Launch date	17 Jan 2023	7 February 2019
Place in performance rating	234	239
Architecture		GCN 5.1
Code name		Vega 20
Design		AMD Radeon 2nd generation Vega
GCN generation		5th Gen
Launch price (MSRP)		$699
Price now		$699.99
Type		Desktop
Value for money (0-100)		32.74
Technical info
Core clock speed	1398 MHz	1400 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	5 nm	7 nm
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance	10.736 TFLOPS	13.8 TFLOPs
Pipelines	30	3840
Render output units	120
Boost clock speed		1750 MHz
Compute units		60
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance		3.46 TFLOPs
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance		27.7 TFLOPs
Pixel fill rate		115.26 GP/s
Stream Processors		3840
Texture fill rate		432.24 GT/s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)		300 Watt
Transistor count		13,230 million
Memory
Memory bandwidth	409.6 GB/s	1024 GB/s
Memory bus width	512 bit	4096 Bit
Memory type	LPDDR5-6400	HBM2
High bandwidth memory (HBM)
Maximum RAM amount		16 GB
Memory clock speed		2000 MHz
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors		1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
DisplayPort count		3
DisplayPort support
HDMI
VGA
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface		PCIe 3.0 x16
Length		305 mm
Recommended system power (PSU)		750 W
Supplementary power connectors		2x 8-pin
API support
DirectX		12.0
OpenCL		2.0
OpenGL		4.6
Vulkan
Technologies
AMD Eyefinity
AMD Radeon™ Chill
AMD Radeon™ ReLive
FreeSync
PowerTune
TressFX
TrueAudio
Unified Video Decoder (UVD)
Video Code Engine (VCE)
Virtual Super Resolution (VSR)
VR Ready
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