Radeon RX Vega M GL vs Apple M5 Max 40-Core GPU

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking52505
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiencyno data11.12
Architectureno dataGCN 4.0 (2016−2020)
GPU code nameno dataPolaris 22
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date3 March 2026 (recently)1 February 2018 (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 cores401280
Core clock speedno data931 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1011 MHz
Number of transistorsno data5,000 million
Manufacturing process technologyno data14 nm
Power consumption (TDP)no data65 Watt
Texture fill rateno data80.88
Floating-point processing powerno data2.588 TFLOPS
ROPsno data32
TMUsno data80
L1 Cacheno data320 KB
L2 Cacheno data1024 KB

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 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 typeLPDDR5x-8533HBM2
Maximum RAM amountno data4 GB
Memory bus widthno data1024 Bit
Memory clock speedno data700 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data179.2 GB/s
Shared memoryno data-

Connectivity and outputs

This section shows the types and number of video connectors on each GPU. The data applies specifically to desktop reference models (for example, NVIDIA’s Founders Edition). OEM partners often modify both the number and types of ports. On notebook GPUs, video‐output options are determined by the laptop’s design rather than the graphics chip itself.

Display Connectorsno dataNo outputs

API and SDK support

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

DirectXno data12 (12_0)
Shader Modelno data6.4
OpenGLno data4.6
OpenCLno data2.0
Vulkan-1.2.131

Gaming performance

Let's see how good the compared graphics cards are for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in FPS.

Average FPS across all PC games

Here are the average frames per second in a large set of popular games across different resolutions:

Full HD101no data
1440p57no data
4K36no data

FPS performance in popular games

Full HD
Medium

Fortnite 55−60
+0%
55−60
+0%
PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS 30−35
+0%
30−35
+0%

Full HD
High

Counter-Strike: Global Offensive 140−150
+0%
140−150
+0%
Dota 2 65−70
+0%
65−70
+0%
Fortnite 55−60
+0%
55−60
+0%
Grand Theft Auto V 35−40
+0%
35−40
+0%
PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS 30−35
+0%
30−35
+0%
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt 24−27
+0%
24−27
+0%

Full HD
Ultra

Dota 2 65−70
+0%
65−70
+0%
PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS 30−35
+0%
30−35
+0%
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt 24−27
+0%
24−27
+0%

Full HD
Epic

Fortnite 55−60
+0%
55−60
+0%

4K
High

Grand Theft Auto V 20−22
+0%
20−22
+0%
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt 10−12
+0%
10−12
+0%

4K
Ultra

Dota 2 35−40
+0%
35−40
+0%
PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS 9−10
+0%
9−10
+0%

4K
Epic

Fortnite 9−10
+0%
9−10
+0%

All in all, in popular games:

  • there's a draw in 17 tests (100%)

Pros & cons summary

Recency 3 March 2026 1 February 2018

Apple M5 Max 40-Core GPU has an age advantage of 8 years.

We couldn't decide between M5 Max 40-Core GPU and Radeon RX Vega M GL. We've got no test results to judge.

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