Apple M2 Ultra 60-core vs AMD Radeon 780M

Comparative analysis of Apple M2 Ultra 60-core and AMD Radeon 780M 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 - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark, 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the Apple M2 Ultra 60-core

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 5 month(s) later
  • 4.3x better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 119711 vs 27793
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 13 Jun 2023 vs 4 Jan 2023
Benchmarks
Geekbench - OpenCL 119711 vs 27793

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon 780M

  • Around 7% higher core clock speed: 1500 MHz vs 1398 MHz
  • 12.8x more pipelines: 768 vs 60
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 4 nm vs 5 nm
Core clock speed 1500 MHz vs 1398 MHz
Pipelines 768 vs 60
Manufacturing process technology 4 nm vs 5 nm

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: Apple M2 Ultra 60-core
GPU 2: AMD Radeon 780M

Geekbench - OpenCL
GPU 1
GPU 2
119711
27793
Name Apple M2 Ultra 60-core AMD Radeon 780M
Geekbench - OpenCL 119711 27793
PassMark - G2D Mark 879
PassMark - G3D Mark 6998
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 480

Compare specifications (specs)

Apple M2 Ultra 60-core AMD Radeon 780M

Essentials

Launch date 13 Jun 2023 4 Jan 2023
Place in performance rating 115 240
Architecture RDNA 3.0
Code name Phoenix

Technical info

Core clock speed 1398 MHz 1500 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 5 nm 4 nm
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance 27.2 TFLOPS
Pipelines 60 768
Render output units 240
Boost clock speed 2900 MHz
Compute units 12
Pixel fill rate 92.80 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate 139.2 GTexel/s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 15 Watt

Memory

Memory bandwidth 800 GB/s System Dependent
Memory bus width 1024 bit System Shared
Memory type LPDDR5-6400 System Shared
Maximum RAM amount System Shared
Memory clock speed System Shared

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors Portable Device Dependent

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Form factor IGP
Interface PCIe 4.0 x8
Supplementary power connectors None

API support

DirectX 12 Ultimate (12_2)
OpenCL 2.1
OpenGL 4.6
Shader Model 6.7
Vulkan