Apple M2 Ultra 60-core vs AMD Radeon Pro W6800

Comparative analysis of Apple M2 Ultra 60-core and AMD Radeon Pro W6800 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, 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).

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the Apple M2 Ultra 60-core

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 2 year(s) 0 month(s) later
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 5 nm vs 7 nm
Launch date 13 Jun 2023 vs 8 Jun 2021
Manufacturing process technology 5 nm vs 7 nm

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon Pro W6800

  • Around 48% higher core clock speed: 2075 MHz vs 1398 MHz
  • 64x more pipelines: 3840 vs 60
  • Around 10% better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 131707 vs 119468
Specifications (specs)
Core clock speed 2075 MHz vs 1398 MHz
Pipelines 3840 vs 60
Benchmarks
Geekbench - OpenCL 131707 vs 119468

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: Apple M2 Ultra 60-core
GPU 2: AMD Radeon Pro W6800

Geekbench - OpenCL
GPU 1
GPU 2
119468
131707
Name Apple M2 Ultra 60-core AMD Radeon Pro W6800
Geekbench - OpenCL 119468 131707
PassMark - G2D Mark 923
PassMark - G3D Mark 19814
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 20988
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 20988
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3717
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3717
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3357
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3357

Compare specifications (specs)

Apple M2 Ultra 60-core AMD Radeon Pro W6800

Essentials

Launch date 13 Jun 2023 8 Jun 2021
Place in performance rating 117 114
Architecture RDNA 2.0
Code name Navi 21
Launch price (MSRP) $2249

Technical info

Core clock speed 1398 MHz 2075 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 5 nm 7 nm
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance 27.2 TFLOPS 19.25 TFLOPS
Pipelines 60 3840
Render output units 240
Boost clock speed 2507 MHz
Compute units 60
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance 1203 GFLOPS (1:16)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance 38.51 TFLOPS (2:1)
Pixel fill rate 240.7 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate 601.7 GTexel/s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 450 Watt
Transistor count 26800 million

Memory

Memory bandwidth 800 GB/s 512 GB/s
Memory bus width 1024 bit 256 bit
Memory type LPDDR5-6400 GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount 32 GB
Memory clock speed 2000 MHz (16 Gbps effective)

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors 6x mini-DisplayPort

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Form factor Dual-slot
Height 50 mm (2 inches)
Interface PCIe 4.0 x16
Length 267 mm (10.5 inches)
Recommended system power (PSU) 850 Watt
Supplementary power connectors 2x 8-pin
Width 120 mm (4.7 inches)

API support

DirectX 12.2
OpenCL 2.1
OpenGL 4.6
Shader Model 6.5
Vulkan