Apple M1 Max 32-Core GPU vs Radeon R2 (Stoney Ridge)

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking1104not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency5.04no data
ArchitectureGCN 1.2/2.0 (2015−2016)no data
GPU code nameStoney Ridgeno data
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date1 June 2016 (8 years ago)10 November 2020 (3 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. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores12832
Core clock speedno data1296 MHz
Boost clock speed600 MHzno data
Number of transistors3100 Millionno data
Manufacturing process technology28 nm5 nm
Power consumption (TDP)15 Watt44 Watt

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 typeno dataLPDDR5-6400
Memory bus width64 Bit512 Bit
Shared memory+-

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (FL 12_0)no data
Vulkan+-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 1 June 2016 10 November 2020
Chip lithography 28 nm 5 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 15 Watt 44 Watt

R2 (Stoney Ridge) has 193.3% lower power consumption.

Apple M1 Max 32-Core GPU, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 4 years, and a 460% more advanced lithography process.

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