Apple M3 Pro 18-Core GPU vs Radeon 610M

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking784not rated
Place by popularity37not in top-100
Power efficiency13.21no data
ArchitectureRDNA 2.0 (2020−2024)no data
GPU code nameDragon Rangeno data
Market segmentDesktopLaptop
Release date3 January 2023 (1 year ago)31 October 2023 (1 year 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 cores12818
Core clock speed400 MHzno data
Boost clock speed2200 MHzno data
Manufacturing process technology5 nm5 nm
Power consumption (TDP)15 Wattno data
Texture fill rate17.60no data
Floating-point processing power0.5632 TFLOPSno data
ROPs4no data
TMUs8no data
Ray Tracing Cores2no data

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 sizeno datamedium sized
InterfacePCIe 4.0 x8no data
WidthIGPno data
Supplementary power connectorsNoneno data

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 typeSystem SharedLPDDR5-6400
Maximum RAM amountSystem Sharedno data
Memory bus widthSystem Sharedno data
Memory clock speedSystem Sharedno data
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 ConnectorsPortable Device Dependentno data

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 Ultimate (12_2)no data
Shader Model6.7no data
OpenGL4.6no data
OpenCL2.1no data
Vulkan1.3-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 3 January 2023 31 October 2023

Apple M3 Pro 18-Core GPU has an age advantage of 9 months.

We couldn't decide between Radeon 610M and Apple M3 Pro 18-Core GPU. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon 610M is a desktop card while Apple M3 Pro 18-Core GPU is a notebook one.


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AMD Radeon 610M
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