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 —
DeviceBenchmark 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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