Apple M2 Pro 16-core vs AMD Radeon R7 A265

Comparative analysis of Apple M2 Pro 16-core and AMD Radeon R7 A265 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, PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark.

Apple M2 Pro 16-core

AMD Radeon R7 A265

Differences

Reasons to consider the Apple M2 Pro 16-core

Videocard is newer: launch date 9 year(s) 0 month(s) later
Around 93% higher core clock speed: 1398 MHz vs 725 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 5 nm vs 28 nm
6.8x better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 47393 vs 6925

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	17 Jan 2023 vs 9 January 2014
Core clock speed	1398 MHz vs 725 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	5 nm vs 28 nm
Benchmarks
Geekbench - OpenCL	47393 vs 6925

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon R7 A265

24x more pipelines: 384 vs 16

Pipelines	384 vs 16

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: Apple M2 Pro 16-core
GPU 2: AMD Radeon R7 A265

Geekbench - OpenCL

GPU 1

GPU 2

47393

6925

Name	Apple M2 Pro 16-core	AMD Radeon R7 A265
Geekbench - OpenCL	47393	6925
PassMark - G3D Mark		994
PassMark - G2D Mark		468

Compare specifications (specs)

	Apple M2 Pro 16-core	AMD Radeon R7 A265
Essentials
Launch date	17 Jan 2023	9 January 2014
Place in performance rating	455	458
Architecture		GCN 1.0
Code name		Opal
Type		Desktop
Technical info
Core clock speed	1398 MHz	725 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	5 nm	28 nm
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance	5.726 TFLOPS
Pipelines	16	384
Render output units	64
Boost clock speed		825 MHz
Floating-point performance		633.6 gflops
Texture fill rate		19.8 GTexel / s
Transistor count		1,040 million
Memory
Memory bandwidth	204.8 GB/s	28.8 GB / s
Memory bus width	256 bit	128 Bit
Memory type	LPDDR5-6400	DDR3
Maximum RAM amount		2 GB
Memory clock speed		1800 MHz
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors		No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface		PCIe 3.0 x8
API support
DirectX		12.0 (11_1)
OpenGL		4.5