Apple M2 Pro 16-Core GPU vs Radeon Pro Vega 64X

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking	147	not rated
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Power efficiency	9.51	no data
Architecture	GCN 5.0 (2017−2020)	no data
GPU code name	Vega 10	no data
Market segment	Mobile workstation	Laptop
Release date	19 March 2019 (5 years 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	4096	16
Core clock speed	1250 MHz	no data
Boost clock speed	1468 MHz	no data
Number of transistors	12,500 million	no data
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm	5 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	250 Watt	no data
Texture fill rate	375.8	no data
Floating-point processing power	12.03 TFLOPS	no data
ROPs	64	no data
TMUs	256	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 3.0 x16	no data
Supplementary power connectors	None	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	HBM2	LPDDR5-6400
Maximum RAM amount	16 GB	no data
Memory bus width	2048 Bit	no data
Memory clock speed	1000 MHz	no data
Memory bandwidth	512.0 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	12 (12_1)	no data
Shader Model	6.4	no data
OpenGL	4.6	no data
OpenCL	2.0	no data
Vulkan	1.1.125	-

Pros & cons summary

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Recency	19 March 2019	17 January 2023
Chip lithography	14 nm	5 nm

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