Apple M3 Pro 14-Core GPU vs Radeon Pro Vega II Duo

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking133not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation6.93no data
Power efficiency5.25no data
ArchitectureGCN 5.1 (2018−2022)no data
GPU code nameVega 20no data
Market segmentWorkstationLaptop
Release date3 June 2019 (5 years ago)31 October 2023 (1 year ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$4,399 no data

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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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 cores409614
Core clock speed1400 MHzno data
Boost clock speed1720 MHzno data
Number of transistors13,230 millionno data
Manufacturing process technology7 nm5 nm
Power consumption (TDP)475 Wattno data
Texture fill rate440.3no data
Floating-point processing power14.09 TFLOPSno data
ROPs64no data
TMUs256no 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 sizeno datamedium sized
InterfaceApple MPXno data
WidthQuad-slotno data
Supplementary power connectorsNoneno 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 typeHBM2LPDDR5-6400
Maximum RAM amount32 GBno data
Memory bus width4096 Bitno data
Memory clock speed1000 MHzno data
Memory bandwidth1.02 TB/sno 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 Connectors1x HDMI 2.0b, 4x Thunderboltno data
HDMI+-

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (12_1)no data
Shader Model6.7no data
OpenGL4.6no data
OpenCL2.1no data
Vulkan1.3-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 3 June 2019 31 October 2023
Chip lithography 7 nm 5 nm

Apple M3 Pro 14-Core GPU has an age advantage of 4 years, and a 40% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon Pro Vega II Duo and Apple M3 Pro 14-Core GPU. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon Pro Vega II Duo is a workstation card while Apple M3 Pro 14-Core GPU is a notebook one.


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AMD Radeon Pro Vega II Duo
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