Apple 60-Core M3 Ultra vs AMD Radeon RX 5500 Full Specs

Summary

7,680 Shaders 1.38GHz	1,408 Shaders 1.84GHz
Shared Memory819.2GB/sLPDDR5	4GB GDDR6224GB/s placeholder
Peak·FP32·FP16 21.2 TFLOPS	Peak·FP32·FP16 5.2 TFLOPS
Form Factor iGPU	Form Factor PCIe Card
TDP Shared	TDP 130W
Power Connectors -	Power Connectors 1x 8-Pin

Highlights

Peak OPS

Peak OPS FP32 FP16 FP64 Memory Bandwidth TDP

60-Core M3 Ultra21.2 TFLOPSFP16

x2.04

Radeon RX 550010.39 TFLOPSFP16

x1

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Theoretical Performance

Clock Speed1380MHz UC·Boost·OC	Clock Speed1845MHz UC·Base·Boost·OC
Peak OPS 21.2 TFLOPSFP16	Peak OPS 10.39 TFLOPSFP16
FP32 21.2 TFLOPS	FP32 5.2 TFLOPS
-	FP64 324.7 GFLOPS
Pixel Rate 331.2 GPixel/s	Pixel Rate 59 GPixel/s
Texture Rate 662.4 GTexel/s	Texture Rate 162.4 GTexel/s

Core Config

Shaders 7,680 Shaders	Shaders 1,408 Shaders
TMUs 480 TMUs	TMUs 88 TMUs
ROPs 240 ROPs	ROPs 32 ROPs
RT Cores 60 RT-Cores	RT Cores -
EUs 960 EUs	CUs 22 CUs

Clocks

Base Clock -	Base Clock 1.67GHz
Boost Clock 1.38GHz	Boost Clock 1.84GHz

Cache

L2 Cache 16.4MB shared

L2 Cache 2MB shared

Memory

Shared MemoryLPDDR5	4GB GDDR6 placeholder
Memory Bus 1024-bit	Memory Bus 128-bit
Memory Speed 6.4GT/s	Memory Speed 14GT/s
Memory Bandwidth 819.2GB/s	Memory Bandwidth 224GB/s

Power & Thermals

TDP Shared	TDP 130W
Max Temp -	Max Temp 110°C Max

Video Output

Multi-Monitor 8	Multi-Monitor 4
HDCP -	HDCP HDCP 2.3

Ports

-	3x DisplayPort 1.4
-	1x HDMI 2.0

Encoder

Encoder Model 4x Apple Media Engine 3

Encoder Model VCN 2.0

Decoder

Decoder Model 2x Apple Media Engine 3

Decoder Model VCN 2.0

Card

Form Factor iGPU	Form Factor PCIe Card
PCIe -	PCIe 2-Slots
Cooling Passive -	Cooling Open-Air 1x Fan
Power Connectors -	Power Connectors 1x 8-Pin

Chip

Manufacturer Apple	Manufacturer AMD
Chip Designer Apple	Chip Designer AMD
Architecture Apple Gen 6	Architecture RDNA 1
Family M Series	Family Radeon RX 5000
Branding	Branding
Codename G15D	Codename Fighter
Chip Variant -	Chip Variant Navi 14 XE
Market Segment Workstation	Market Segment Desktop
Release Date Mar 5, 2025	Release Date Oct 7, 2019

Fabrication

Foundry TSMC	Foundry TSMC
Fabrication Node N3B	Fabrication Node N7
Die Size 954mm²	Die Size 158mm²
Transistor Count 184 Billion	Transistor Count 6.4 Billion
Transistor Density 193 MTr/mm²	Transistor Density 40.51 MTr/mm²

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Used In

CPUs M3 Ultra (28C60G)	CPUs -
Desktops Mac Studio(M3 Ultra, Early 2025)	Desktops Victus 15L(Early 2022)OMEN 25L(Late 2020)OMEN 30L(AMD, Late 2020)

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