Apple M2 Ultra 60-core vs AMD Radeon Pro Vega II

Comparative analysis of Apple M2 Ultra 60-core and AMD Radeon Pro Vega II 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, GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark.

Apple M2 Ultra 60-core

AMD Radeon Pro Vega II

Differences

Reasons to consider the Apple M2 Ultra 60-core

Videocard is newer: launch date 3 year(s) 6 month(s) later
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 5 nm vs 7 nm
Around 20% better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 119711 vs 99395

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	13 Jun 2023 vs Dec 2019
Manufacturing process technology	5 nm vs 7 nm
Benchmarks
Geekbench - OpenCL	119711 vs 99395

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon Pro Vega II

Around 13% higher core clock speed: 1574 MHz vs 1398 MHz
68.3x more pipelines: 4096 vs 60

Core clock speed	1574 MHz vs 1398 MHz
Pipelines	4096 vs 60

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: Apple M2 Ultra 60-core
GPU 2: AMD Radeon Pro Vega II

Geekbench - OpenCL

GPU 1

GPU 2

119711

99395

Name	Apple M2 Ultra 60-core	AMD Radeon Pro Vega II
Geekbench - OpenCL	119711	99395
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)		16149
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)		16149
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)		3100
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)		3100
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		2813
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		2813
PassMark - G2D Mark		748
PassMark - G3D Mark		15597

Compare specifications (specs)

	Apple M2 Ultra 60-core	AMD Radeon Pro Vega II
Essentials
Launch date	13 Jun 2023	Dec 2019
Place in performance rating	115	181
Architecture		GCN 5.1
Code name		Vega 20
Type		Laptop
Technical info
Core clock speed	1398 MHz	1574 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	5 nm	7 nm
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance	27.2 TFLOPS	14.09 TFLOPS
Pipelines	60	4096
Render output units	240
Boost clock speed		1720 MHz
Compute units		64
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance		880.6 GFLOPS (1:16)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance		28.18 TFLOPS (2:1)
Pixel fill rate		110.1 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate		440.3 GTexel/s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)		475 Watt
Transistor count		13230 million
Memory
Memory bandwidth	800 GB/s	825.3 GB/s
Memory bus width	1024 bit	4096 bit
Memory type	LPDDR5-6400	HBM2
High bandwidth memory (HBM)
Maximum RAM amount		32 GB
Memory clock speed		1612 MHz
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors		1x HDMI, 4x mini-DisplayPort
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface		PCIe 3.0 x16
Recommended system power (PSU)		850 Watt
Supplementary power connectors		None
Width		Dual-slot
API support
DirectX		12.1
OpenCL		2.0
OpenGL		4.6
Shader Model		6.4
Vulkan
Technologies
Unified Video Decoder (UVD)
Video Code Engine (VCE)