Apple M2 Pro 16-core vs AMD Radeon R9 M395 Mac Edition

Comparative analysis of Apple M2 Pro 16-core and AMD Radeon R9 M395 Mac Edition 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 - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D 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).

Apple M2 Pro 16-core

AMD Radeon R9 M395 Mac Edition

Differences

Reasons to consider the Apple M2 Pro 16-core

Videocard is newer: launch date 7 year(s) 8 month(s) later
Around 68% higher core clock speed: 1398 MHz vs 834 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 5 nm vs 28 nm
2x better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 47697 vs 23551

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	17 Jan 2023 vs 5 May 2015
Core clock speed	1398 MHz vs 834 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	5 nm vs 28 nm
Benchmarks
Geekbench - OpenCL	47697 vs 23551

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon R9 M395 Mac Edition

112x more pipelines: 1792 vs 16

Pipelines	1792 vs 16

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: Apple M2 Pro 16-core
GPU 2: AMD Radeon R9 M395 Mac Edition

Geekbench - OpenCL

GPU 1

GPU 2

47697

23551

Name	Apple M2 Pro 16-core	AMD Radeon R9 M395 Mac Edition
Geekbench - OpenCL	47697	23551
PassMark - G2D Mark		720
PassMark - G3D Mark		4911
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)		56.272
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)		778.867
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)		5.051
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)		65.535
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)		336.811

Compare specifications (specs)

	Apple M2 Pro 16-core	AMD Radeon R9 M395 Mac Edition
Essentials
Launch date	17 Jan 2023	5 May 2015
Place in performance rating	450	447
Architecture		GCN 2.0
Code name		Grenada
Design		AMD Radeon R9 300 Series
Type		Desktop
Technical info
Core clock speed	1398 MHz	834 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	5 nm	28 nm
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance	5.726 TFLOPS
Pipelines	16	1792
Render output units	64
Floating-point performance		2,989 gflops
Texture fill rate		93.41 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)		250 Watt
Transistor count		6,200 million
Memory
Memory bandwidth	204.8 GB/s	174.7 GB / s
Memory bus width	256 bit	256 bit
Memory type	LPDDR5-6400	GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount		4 GB
Memory clock speed		5460 MHz
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors		No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface		MXM-B (3.0)
Supplementary power connectors		None
API support
DirectX		12
OpenGL		4.4
Technologies
AMD Eyefinity
DualGraphics
PowerTune
Switchable graphics
TrueAudio
ZeroCore