Radeon R7 (Bristol Ridge) vs Apple M5 Max 40-Core GPU

Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated972
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiencyno data3.08
Architectureno dataGCN 1.2 (2016)
GPU code nameno dataBristol Ridge
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date3 March 2026 (less than a year ago)1 June 2016 (10 years ago)

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Real power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially if overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores40512
Boost clock speedno data900 MHz
Number of transistorsno data2410 Million
Manufacturing process technologyno data28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)no data12-45 Watt

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 sizeno datamedium sized

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 typeLPDDR5x-8533no data
Memory bus widthno data64/128 Bit
Shared memoryno data+

API and SDK support

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

DirectXno data12 (FL 12_0)

Pros & cons summary


Recency 3 March 2026 1 June 2016

Apple M5 Max 40-Core GPU has an age advantage of 9 years.

We couldn't decide between M5 Max 40-Core GPU and Radeon R7 (Bristol Ridge). We've got no test results to judge.

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