Apple M2 Pro 16-Core GPU vs Radeon 780M

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking298not rated
Place by popularity47not in top-100
Power efficiency85.22no data
ArchitectureRDNA 3.0 (2022−2024)no data
GPU code nameHawx Pointno data
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date6 December 2023 (less than a year ago)17 January 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 cores76816
Core clock speed800 MHzno data
Boost clock speed2700 MHzno data
Number of transistors25,390 millionno data
Manufacturing process technology4 nm5 nm
Power consumption (TDP)15 Wattno data
Texture fill rate129.6no data
Floating-point processing power8.294 TFLOPSno data
ROPs32no data
TMUs48no data
Ray Tracing Cores12no 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
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 Model6.8no data
OpenGL4.6no data
OpenCL2.1no data
Vulkan1.3-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 6 December 2023 17 January 2023
Chip lithography 4 nm 5 nm

Radeon 780M has an age advantage of 10 months, and a 25% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon 780M and Apple M2 Pro 16-Core GPU. We've got no test results to judge.


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AMD Radeon 780M
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