Apple M2 Pro 16-core vs AMD Radeon R9 M470X

Comparative analysis of Apple M2 Pro 16-core and AMD Radeon R9 M470X 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, 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 R9 M470X

Differences

Reasons to consider the Apple M2 Pro 16-core

Videocard is newer: launch date 6 year(s) 8 month(s) later
Around 40% higher core clock speed: 1398 MHz vs 1000 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 15 May 2016
Core clock speed	1398 MHz vs 1000 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	5 nm vs 28 nm

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon R9 M470X

56x more pipelines: 896 vs 16
Around 22% better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 57109 vs 46969

Specifications (specs)
Pipelines	896 vs 16
Benchmarks
Geekbench - OpenCL	57109 vs 46969

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: Apple M2 Pro 16-core
GPU 2: AMD Radeon R9 M470X

Geekbench - OpenCL

GPU 1

GPU 2

46969

57109

Name	Apple M2 Pro 16-core	AMD Radeon R9 M470X
Geekbench - OpenCL	46969	57109
PassMark - G3D Mark		3244
PassMark - G2D Mark		426
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)		3715
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)		3715
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		3359
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		3359

Compare specifications (specs)

	Apple M2 Pro 16-core	AMD Radeon R9 M470X
Essentials
Launch date	17 Jan 2023	15 May 2016
Place in performance rating	463	461
Architecture		GCN 2.0
Code name		Strato
Type		Laptop
Technical info
Core clock speed	1398 MHz	1000 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	5 nm	28 nm
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance	5.726 TFLOPS
Pipelines	16	896
Render output units	64
Boost clock speed		1100 MHz
Floating-point performance		1,971 gflops
Texture fill rate		61.6 GTexel / s
Transistor count		2,080 million
Memory
Memory bandwidth	204.8 GB/s	96 GB / s
Memory bus width	256 bit	128 Bit
Memory type	LPDDR5-6400	GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount		4 GB
Memory clock speed		6000 MHz
Shared memory		0
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors		No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface		PCIe 3.0 x16
Laptop size		large
API support
DirectX		12.0 (12_0)
OpenGL		4.5
Technologies
DirectCompute 5.0