Radeon R1E Mobile Graphics vs Apple M2 Max 38-Core GPU

Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot ratednot rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Architectureno dataGCN 2.0 (2013−2017)
GPU code nameno dataBeema
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date17 January 2023 (1 year ago)23 February 2016 (8 years ago)

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 cores3864
Core clock speedno data497 MHz
Boost clock speedno data600 MHz
Number of transistorsno data930 million
Manufacturing process technology5 nm28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)53 Watt15 Watt
Texture fill rateno data3.976
Floating-point processing powerno data0.06362 TFLOPS
ROPsno data4
TMUsno data8

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).

Laptop sizemedium sizedno data
Interfaceno dataIGP

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 typeLPDDR5-6400System Shared
Maximum RAM amountno dataSystem Shared
Memory bus widthno dataSystem Shared
Memory clock speedno dataSystem Shared
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 dataPortable Device Dependent

API compatibility

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

DirectXno data12 (12_0)
Shader Modelno data6.5 (6.0)
OpenGLno data4.6
OpenCLno data2.1
Vulkan-1.2.170

Pros & cons summary


Recency 17 January 2023 23 February 2016
Chip lithography 5 nm 28 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 53 Watt 15 Watt

Apple M2 Max 38-Core GPU has an age advantage of 6 years, and a 460% more advanced lithography process.

R1E Mobile Graphics, on the other hand, has 253.3% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Apple M2 Max 38-Core GPU and Radeon R1E Mobile Graphics. We've got no test results to judge.


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Apple M2 Max 38-Core GPU
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