Apple M2 Pro 16-core vs AMD Radeon HD 8830M

Comparative analysis of Apple M2 Pro 16-core and AMD Radeon HD 8830M videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Memory, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: Geekbench - OpenCL, GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

Apple M2 Pro 16-core

AMD Radeon HD 8830M

Differences

Reasons to consider the Apple M2 Pro 16-core

Videocard is newer: launch date 9 year(s) 9 month(s) later
2.4x more core clock speed: 1398 MHz vs 575 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 1 April 2013
Core clock speed	1398 MHz vs 575 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	5 nm vs 28 nm

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 8830M

40x more pipelines: 640 vs 16

Pipelines	640 vs 16

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: Apple M2 Pro 16-core
GPU 2: AMD Radeon HD 8830M

Name	Apple M2 Pro 16-core	AMD Radeon HD 8830M
Geekbench - OpenCL	47760
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)		2695
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)		2695
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)		5106
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)		5106
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		11302
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		11302

Compare specifications (specs)

	Apple M2 Pro 16-core	AMD Radeon HD 8830M
Essentials
Launch date	17 Jan 2023	1 April 2013
Place in performance rating	451	450
Architecture		GCN 1.0
Code name		Venus
Design		AMD Radeon HD 8000M Series
Type		Desktop
Technical info
Core clock speed	1398 MHz	575 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	5 nm	28 nm
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance	5.726 TFLOPS
Pipelines	16	640
Render output units	64
Boost clock speed		575 MHz
Compute units		10
Floating-point performance		800.0 gflops
Texture fill rate		25 GTexel / s
Transistor count		1,500 million
Memory
Memory bandwidth	204.8 GB/s	32 GB / s
Memory bus width	256 bit	128 Bit
Memory type	LPDDR5-6400	DDR3
Maximum RAM amount		2 GB
Memory clock speed		2000 MHz
Shared memory		0
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors		No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface		PCIe 3.0 x16
Laptop size		medium sized
API support
DirectX		11
OpenGL		4.4