Radeon RX 6300 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 rated366
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiencyno data30.38
Architectureno dataRDNA 2.0 (2020−2024)
GPU code nameno dataNavi 24
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date17 January 2023 (1 year ago)no data (2024 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 cores38768
Core clock speedno data1000 MHz
Boost clock speedno data2040 MHz
Number of transistorsno data5,400 million
Manufacturing process technology5 nm6 nm
Power consumption (TDP)53 Watt32 Watt
Texture fill rateno data97.92
Floating-point processing powerno data3.133 TFLOPS
ROPsno data32
TMUsno data48
Ray Tracing Coresno data12

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 dataPCIe 4.0 x4
Widthno dataIGP
Supplementary power connectorsno dataNone

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 typeLPDDR5-6400GDDR6
Maximum RAM amountno data2 GB
Memory bus widthno data32 Bit
Memory clock speedno data2000 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data64 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 data2x HDMI 2.1
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


Chip lithography 5 nm 6 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 53 Watt 32 Watt

Apple M2 Max 38-Core GPU has a 20% more advanced lithography process.

RX 6300, on the other hand, has 65.6% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Apple M2 Max 38-Core GPU and Radeon RX 6300. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Apple M2 Max 38-Core GPU is a notebook card while Radeon RX 6300 is a desktop one.


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Apple M2 Max 38-Core GPU
M2 Max 38-Core GPU
AMD Radeon RX 6300
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