Apple 8-Core M4 vs AMD Radeon Vega 8 2000MHz Full Specs

Summary

1,024 Shaders 1.58GHz	512 Shaders 2GHz
Shared Memory120GB/sLPDDR5X	Shared Memory68.3GB/s LPDDR4X·DDR4
Peak·FP32·FP16 3.23 TFLOPS	Peak·FP32·FP16 2.05 TFLOPS
Form Factor iGPU	Form Factor iGPU
TDP Shared	TDP Shared

Theoretical Performance

Clock Speed1578MHz UC·Boost·OC	Clock Speed2000MHz UC·Base·Boost·OC
Peak OPS 3.23 TFLOPSFP16	Peak OPS 4.1 TFLOPSFP16
FP32 3.23 TFLOPS	FP32 2.05 TFLOPS
-	FP64 128 GFLOPS
Pixel Rate 50.5 GPixel/s	Pixel Rate 16 GPixel/s
Texture Rate 101 GTexel/s	Texture Rate 64 GTexel/s

Core Config

Shaders 1,024 Shaders	Shaders 512 Shaders
TMUs 64 TMUs	TMUs 32 TMUs
ROPs 32 ROPs	ROPs 8 ROPs
RT Cores 8 RT-Cores	RT Cores -
EUs 128 EUs	CUs 8 CUs

Clocks

Base Clock -	Base Clock 300MHz
Boost Clock 1.58GHz	Boost Clock 2GHz

Cache

L2 Cache 2MB shared

L2 Cache 1MB shared

Memory

Shared MemoryLPDDR5X	Shared Memory LPDDR4X·DDR4
Memory Bus 128-bit	Memory Bus 128-bit
Memory Speed 7.5GT/s	Memory Speed 4.3GT/s
Memory Bandwidth 120GB/s	Memory Bandwidth 68.3GB/s
ECC No	ECC No

Video Output

Multi-Monitor 2

Multi-Monitor 3

Encoder

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

Decoder

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

Card

Form Factor iGPU

Form Factor iGPU

Chip

Manufacturer Apple	Manufacturer AMD
Chip Designer Apple	Chip Designer AMD
Architecture Apple Gen 7	Architecture GCN 5
Family M Series	Family Vega
Branding	Branding
Codename G16G	Codename -
Chip Variant -	Chip Variant Vega 3
Market Segment Laptop	Market Segment Laptop
Release Date Oct 28, 2024	Release Date Jul 21, 2020

Fabrication

Foundry TSMC	Foundry TSMC
Fabrication Node N3E	Fabrication Node N7
Die Size 169mm²	Die Size 180mm²
Transistor Count 28 Billion	Transistor Count 10.7 Billion
Transistor Density 165 MTr/mm²	Transistor Density 59 MTr/mm²

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