AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX vs Apple M2 GPU (8-core)

[ VERDICT ] Winner: AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX (85/100)

AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX leads overall with a score of 85/100 compared to Apple M2 GPU (8-core) (27/100), offering superior measured performance and technical specifications.

Benchmark Performance Comparison

Normalized Lab Scores
Benchmark measurements and scores across compared devices
Benchmark AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX Apple M2 GPU (8-core)
4K Gaming 91.0 Excellent
NanoReview Score 85.0 Very Good
Rasterization 94.0 Excellent
Ray Tracing 78.0 Very Good
Efficiency 90.0 Excellent
Gaming 9.0 Poor

Detailed Technical Specifications

Memory

Memory specifications comparison
Specification AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX Apple M2 GPU (8-core)
Memory Size 24 GB GDDR6 (384-bit)
Bus 128-bit
ECC No
Effective Memory Speed 12800 Mbps
Memory Clock 6400 MHz
Memory Type System Shared

Performance

Performance specifications comparison
Specification AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX Apple M2 GPU (8-core)
Architecture AMD RDNA 3 (Chiplet Design) Apple M GPU
Stream Processors 6,144 Stream Processors

Power

Power specifications comparison
Specification AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX Apple M2 GPU (8-core)
Tdp 355W TBP

3D Mark

3D Mark specifications comparison
Specification AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX Apple M2 GPU (8-core)
Solar Bay 7316
Wild Life Extreme 5676

API

API specifications comparison
Specification AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX Apple M2 GPU (8-core)
DLSS No
Ray Tracing No

GeekBench 6 ML

GeekBench 6 ML specifications comparison
Specification AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX Apple M2 GPU (8-core)
Backend GPU
Depth Estimation (Q) 13941
Face Detection (HP) 10340
Framework Core ML
Image Classification (SP) 3242
Image Segmentation (HP) 4890
Image Super Resolution (Q) 7149
Machine Translation (HP) 1122
Object Detection (SP) 3007
Pose Estimation (Q) 21268
Style Transfer (SP) 35943
Text Classification (SP) 2268

GeekBench 6 OpenCL

GeekBench 6 OpenCL specifications comparison
Specification AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX Apple M2 GPU (8-core)
API OpenCL
Background Blur 58.7 img/sec
Edge Detection 1.82 Gpixels/sec
Face Detection 35.2 img/sec
Feature Matching 0.37 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 1.2 Gpixels/sec
Horizon Detection 1.1 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 3825.9 FPS
Stereo Matching 96 Gpixels/sec

General

General specifications comparison
Specification AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX Apple M2 GPU (8-core)
Architecture AMD RDNA 3 (Chiplet Design) Apple M GPU
Build Integrated
Case Laptop
Purpose Professional
Recommended CPU -Apple M2or above
Released June 6, 2022
Segment Mid-range
Successor -Apple M5 GPU (10-Core)
Used in CPUs -Apple M2
Vendor Apple

Graphics Processing Unit

Graphics Processing Unit specifications comparison
Specification AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX Apple M2 GPU (8-core)
Base Clock 500 MHz
Boost Clock 1398 MHz
Compute Units (Pipelines) 128
Instructions Per Cycle 2 IPC
Render Output Units (ROPs) 32
Shading Units 1024
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 64

Physical

Physical specifications comparison
Specification AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX Apple M2 GPU (8-core)
Fabrication Process 5 nm
Interface Custom
Manufacturing TSMC
Max. Temperature 94°C
TGP 15 W
Transistor Count 11.6 billion

Raw Performance

Raw Performance specifications comparison
Specification AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX Apple M2 GPU (8-core)
Pixel Fill Rate 45 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 89 GTexel/s

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