Apple M2 Pro 16-core vs AMD Radeon R9 270X

Comparative analysis of Apple M2 Pro 16-core and AMD Radeon R9 270X 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 Pro 16-core

AMD Radeon R9 270X

Differences

Reasons to consider the Apple M2 Pro 16-core

Videocard is newer: launch date 9 year(s) 3 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 8 October 2013
Manufacturing process technology	5 nm vs 28 nm

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon R9 270X

80x more pipelines: 1280 vs 16

Pipelines	1280 vs 16

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: Apple M2 Pro 16-core
GPU 2: AMD Radeon R9 270X

Name	Apple M2 Pro 16-core	AMD Radeon R9 270X
Geekbench - OpenCL	47629
PassMark - G3D Mark		4870
PassMark - G2D Mark		612
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)		63.87
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)		1314.72
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)		6.354
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)		85.21
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)		315.412
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)		8068
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)		3706
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		3350
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)		8068
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)		3706
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		3350
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score		1772

Compare specifications (specs)

	Apple M2 Pro 16-core	AMD Radeon R9 270X
Essentials
Launch date	17 Jan 2023	8 October 2013
Place in performance rating	450	453
Architecture		GCN 1.0
Code name		Curacao
Design		AMD Radeon R9 200 Series
Launch price (MSRP)		$199
Price now		$399
Type		Desktop
Value for money (0-100)		16.05
Technical info
Core clock speed	1398 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	5 nm	28 nm
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance	5.726 TFLOPS
Pipelines	16	1280
Render output units	64
Boost clock speed		1050 MHz
Floating-point performance		2,688 gflops
Stream Processors		1280
Texture fill rate		84 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)		180 Watt
Transistor count		2,800 million
Memory
Memory bandwidth	204.8 GB/s	179.2 GB/s
Memory bus width	256 bit	256 Bit
Memory type	LPDDR5-6400	GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount		2 GB
Shared memory		0
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors		2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
DisplayPort support
Dual-link DVI support
Eyefinity
HDMI
VGA
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Bus support		PCIe 3.0
Interface		PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors		2 x 6-pin
API support
DirectX		12
OpenGL		4.5
Vulkan
Technologies
AMD Eyefinity
AppAcceleration
CrossFire
DDMA audio
FreeSync
HD3D
LiquidVR
TressFX
TrueAudio
Unified Video Decoder (UVD)