AMD Radeon Vega 8 2000MHz vs Apple 10-Core M5 Full Specs

Summary

512 Shaders 2GHz	1,280 Shaders 1.62GHz
Shared Memory68.3GB/s LPDDR4X·DDR4	Shared Memory153.6GB/sLPDDR5X
Peak·FP32·FP16 2.05 TFLOPS	Peak·FP32·FP16 4.15 TFLOPS
Form Factor iGPU	Form Factor iGPU
TDP Shared	TDP Shared

Theoretical Performance

Clock Speed2000MHz UC·Base·Boost·OC	Clock Speed1620MHz UC·Boost·OC
Peak OPS 4.1 TFLOPSFP16	Peak OPS 33.18 TOPSINT8 Tensor
-	Tensor FP16-16 8.29 TFLOPS Tensor FP16-32 8.29 TFLOPS
-	Tensor BF16 16.59 TFLOPS
FP32 2.05 TFLOPS	FP32 4.15 TFLOPS
FP64 128 GFLOPS	-
-	Tensor INT8 33.18 TOPS
Pixel Rate 16 GPixel/s	Pixel Rate 64.8 GPixel/s
Texture Rate 64 GTexel/s	Texture Rate 129.6 GTexel/s

Core Config

Shaders 512 Shaders	Shaders 1,280 Shaders
TMUs 32 TMUs	TMUs 80 TMUs
ROPs 8 ROPs	ROPs 40 ROPs
Tensor Cores -	Tensor Cores 10 T-Cores
RT Cores -	RT Cores 10 RT-Cores
CUs 8 CUs	EUs 160 EUs

Clocks

Base Clock 300MHz	Base Clock -
Boost Clock 2GHz	Boost Clock 1.62GHz

Cache

L1 16KB/CU	L1 -
L2 Cache 1MB shared	L2 Cache 2MB shared

Memory

Shared Memory LPDDR4X·DDR4	Shared MemoryLPDDR5X
Memory Bus 128-bit	Memory Bus 128-bit
Memory Speed 4.3GT/s	Memory Speed 9.6GT/s
Memory Bandwidth 68.3GB/s	Memory Bandwidth 153.6GB/s
ECC No	ECC No

Video Output

Max Resolution 4096x2160	Max Resolution 7680x4320
Refresh Rate Calculator 3840x2160 Resolution4K UHD Refresh Rate 64Hz	Refresh Rate Calculator 7680x4320 Resolution8K UHD Refresh Rate 120Hz
Multi-Monitor 3	Multi-Monitor 2
Adaptive Sync FreeSync	Adaptive Sync -
DSC Not Supported	DSC Not Supported

API Support

Shader Model 6.7	Shader Model -
DirectX DirectX 12 Direct3D 12_1	-
OpenGL 4.6 OpenCL 3 Vulkan 1.2	-
GFX 9	-

Encoder

Encoder VCN 2.0	Encoder Apple Media Engine 3
Codec AVC (H.264) HEVC (H.265) -	Codec AVC (H.264) HEVC (H.265) ProRes

Decoder

Decoder VCN 2.0	Decoder Apple Media Engine 3
Codec MPEG-1 MPEG-2 MPEG-4 JPEG VC-1 VP9 AVC (H.264) HEVC (H.265) - -	Codec - - - - - - AVC (H.264) HEVC (H.265) AV1 ProRes

Card

Form Factor iGPU

Form Factor iGPU

Chip

Manufacturer AMD	Manufacturer Apple
Chip Designer AMD	Chip Designer Apple
Architecture GCN 5	Architecture Apple Gen 8
Family Vega	Family M Series
Branding	Branding
Codename -	Codename G17G
Chip Variant Vega 3	Chip Variant -
Market Segment Laptop	Market Segment Laptop
Release Date Jul 21, 2020	Release Date Oct 15, 2025

Fabrication

Foundry TSMC	Foundry TSMC
Fabrication Node N7	Fabrication Node N3P
Die Size 180mm²	Die Size -
Transistor Count 10.7B	Transistor Count -
Transistor Density 59 MTr/mm²	Transistor Density -

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