Radeon RX 7900 XT vs Apple M1 GPU

Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the rankingnot rated13
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluationno data37.52
Power efficiencyno data17.23
Architectureno dataRDNA 3.0 (2022−2024)
GPU code nameno dataNavi 31
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date10 November 2020 (4 years ago)3 November 2022 (2 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)no data$899

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores85376
Core clock speedno data1387 MHz
Boost clock speedno data2394 MHz
Number of transistorsno data57,700 million
Manufacturing process technology5 nm5 nm
Power consumption (TDP)no data300 Watt
Texture fill rateno data804.4
Floating-point processing powerno data51.48 TFLOPS
ROPsno data192
TMUsno data336
Ray Tracing Coresno data84

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

Interfaceno dataPCIe 4.0 x16
Lengthno data276 mm
Widthno data2-slot
Supplementary power connectorsno data2x 8-pin

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeno dataGDDR6
Maximum RAM amountno data20 GB
Memory bus widthno data320 Bit
Memory clock speedno data2500 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data800.0 GB/s
Shared memory+-

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectorsno data1x HDMI 2.1a, 2x DisplayPort 2.1, 1x USB Type-C
HDMI-+

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectXno data12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Modelno data6.7
OpenGLno data4.6
OpenCLno data2.2
Vulkan-1.3

Pros & cons summary


Recency 10 November 2020 3 November 2022

RX 7900 XT has an age advantage of 1 year.

We couldn't decide between Apple M1 GPU and Radeon RX 7900 XT. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Apple M1 GPU is a notebook card while Radeon RX 7900 XT is a desktop one.


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