Apple M2 Max 38-Core GPU vs Radeon Instinct MI300

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking	not rated	not rated
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Architecture	CDNA 3.0 (2023−2024)	no data
GPU code name	Aqua Vanjaram	no data
Market segment	Workstation	Laptop
Release date	4 January 2023 (1 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 cores	14080	38
Core clock speed	1000 MHz	no data
Boost clock speed	1700 MHz	no data
Number of transistors	153,000 million	no data
Manufacturing process technology	5 nm	5 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	600 Watt	53 Watt
Texture fill rate	1,496	no data
Floating-point processing power	47.87 TFLOPS	no data
TMUs	880	no data
Tensor Cores	880	no 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 size	no data	medium sized
Interface	PCIe 5.0 x16	no data
Length	267 mm	no data
Width	2-slot	no data
Supplementary power connectors	2x 8-pin	no 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 type	HBM3	LPDDR5-6400
Maximum RAM amount	128 GB	no data
Memory bus width	8192 Bit	no data
Memory clock speed	1600 MHz	no data
Memory bandwidth	3,277 GB/s	no 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 Connectors

No outputs

no data

API compatibility

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

DirectX	N/A	no data
Shader Model	N/A	no data
OpenGL	N/A	no data
OpenCL	3.0	no data
Vulkan	N/A	-

Pros & cons summary

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Power consumption (TDP)

600 Watt

53 Watt

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