Radeon 880M vs Apple M3 Max 40-Core GPU

Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated273
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiencyno data92.21
Architectureno dataRDNA 3.5 (2024)
GPU code nameno dataStrix Point
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date31 October 2023 (1 year ago)July 2024 (recently)

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 cores40512
Core clock speedno data400 MHz
Boost clock speedno data2900 MHz
Number of transistorsno data34,000 million
Manufacturing process technology5 nm4 nm
Power consumption (TDP)53 Watt15 Watt
Texture fill rateno data92.80
Floating-point processing powerno data2.97 TFLOPS
ROPsno data16
TMUsno data32
Ray Tracing Coresno data12

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 sizemedium sizedno data
Interfaceno dataPCIe 4.0 x8
Widthno dataIGP
Supplementary power connectorsno dataNone

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 typeLPDDR5-6400System Shared
Maximum RAM amountno dataSystem Shared
Memory bus widthno dataSystem Shared
Memory clock speedno dataSystem Shared
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 Connectorsno dataPortable Device Dependent

API compatibility

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

DirectXno data12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Modelno data6.8
OpenGLno data4.6
OpenCLno data2.1
Vulkan-1.3

Pros & cons summary


Chip lithography 5 nm 4 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 53 Watt 15 Watt

Radeon 880M has a 25% more advanced lithography process, and 253.3% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Apple M3 Max 40-Core GPU and Radeon 880M. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Apple M3 Max 40-Core GPU is a notebook card while Radeon 880M is a desktop one.


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Apple M3 Max 40-Core GPU
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