Apple M2 Ultra 76-core vs AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT

Comparative analysis of Apple M2 Ultra 76-core and AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT 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: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/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), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

Apple M2 Ultra 76-core

AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT

Differences

Reasons to consider the Apple M2 Ultra 76-core

Videocard is newer: launch date 2 year(s) 7 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 28 Oct 2020
Manufacturing process technology	5 nm vs 7 nm

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT

Around 31% higher core clock speed: 1825 MHz vs 1398 MHz
60.6x more pipelines: 4608 vs 76

Core clock speed	1825 MHz vs 1398 MHz
Pipelines	4608 vs 76

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: Apple M2 Ultra 76-core
GPU 2: AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT

Name	Apple M2 Ultra 76-core	AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT
PassMark - G3D Mark		25004
PassMark - G2D Mark		1025
Geekbench - OpenCL		154220
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)		578.52
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)		52.561
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)		291.971
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)		2700.97
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)		16849
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)		3720
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		3374
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)		16849
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)		3720
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		3374
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score		3689

Compare specifications (specs)

	Apple M2 Ultra 76-core	AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT
Essentials
Launch date	13 Jun 2023	28 Oct 2020
Place in performance rating	not rated	71
Architecture		RDNA 2.0
Code name		Navi 21
Launch price (MSRP)		$649
Type		Desktop
Technical info
Core clock speed	1398 MHz	1825 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	5 nm	7 nm
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance	27.2 TFLOPS	20.74 TFLOPS
Pipelines	76	4608
Render output units	304
Boost clock speed		2250 MHz
Compute units		72
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance		1296 GFLOPS (1:16)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance		41.47 TFLOPS (2:1)
Pixel fill rate		288.0 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate		648.0 GTexel/s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)		300 Watt
Transistor count		26800 million
Memory
Memory bandwidth	800 GB/s	512.0 GB/s
Memory bus width	1024 bit	256 bit
Memory type	LPDDR5-6400	GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount		16 GB
Memory clock speed		2000 MHz (16 Gbps effective)
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors		1x HDMI, 2x DisplayPort, 1x USB Type-C
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Height		50 mm (2 inches)
Interface		PCIe 4.0 x16
Length		267 mm (10.5 inches)
Recommended system power (PSU)		700 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