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AMD Radeon 610M vs Apple M2 Max GPU (38-core)

Radeon 610M
VS
Apple M2 Max GPU (38-core)
AMD Radeon 610M
Mendocino
Apple M2 Max GPU (38-core)

We compared two integrated laptop graphics cards: the Radeon 610M with 2 pipelines and 128 shaders against the 4 months newer Apple M2 Max GPU (38-core) that utilizes 608 pipelines and 4864 shaders. Here you will find complete details about specs, efficiency, performance tests, and more.

  1. Review
  2. Differences
  3. Gaming performance
  4. Benchmarks
  5. AI
  6. Specs
  7. Comments

Review

General comparison of performance in games, applications, power efficiency, and other metrics
Gaming
Performance in DirectX, OpenCL, and Vulkan games
Workstation
Perf. in 3D modeling, video editing and rendering apps
AI/ML
Capabilities for machine learning and AI-related tasks
Energy Efficiency
Power consumption efficiency in different scenarios
NanoReview Final Score
Overall video card score

Key differences

Key distinctions and advantages of M2 Max GPU (38-core) over Radeon 610M
Reasons to consider the Apple M2 Max GPU (38-core)
  • Performs significantly better (up to 21.1x) in 3DMark Steel Nomad Lite
  • 22.7x higher maximum theoretical performance (13.6 vs 0.6 TFLOPS)
  • Manufactured using a more efficient 5 nm process technology
  • Has 38x more shading units (4864 vs 128)
  • Achieves 17x more points in the GeekBench 6 Compute test (86K vs 5K)

Gaming Performance

Frame rate comparison across popular AAA titles at different resolutions
GPU
Radeon 610M
vs
M2 Max GPU (38-core)

Games

FPS Table
Forza Horizon 5
11
-
-
-
-
Counter-Strike 2
16
11
-
-
-
Far Cry 6
9
-
-
-
-
CoD: Modern Warfare III
13
11
9
-
-
Ghost of Tsushima
-
-
-
-
-
Shadow of the Tomb Raider
-
9
-
-
-
Average FPS by Resolution
1080p High 9 -
1080p Ultra - -
1440p Ultra - -
4K Ultra - -
Margin of Error Low High

Benchmarks

Graphics cards’ performance in recent benchmarking apps

3D Mark

Multiplatform graphics benchmark suite that directly correlates with performance in modern games
Steel Nomad Lite Score
Time Spy 519 -
Solar Bay 2068 30368
Port Royal 291 -
Fire Strike 1745 -
Wild Life Extreme 998 24948
Night Raid 7335 -
Sources: 3DMark [1], [2]

GeekBench 6 OpenCL

GPU test for computational tasks (image processing, photography, computer vision, and ML)
GB6 Compute Score
Radeon 610M
5099
M2 Max GPU (38-core) +1605%
86936
Background Blur 12 img/sec 149 img/sec
Face Detection 6.42 img/sec 98.1 img/sec
Horizon Detection 0.16 Gpixels/sec 3.8 Gpixels/sec
Edge Detection 0.23 Gpixels/sec 6.88 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 0.16 Gpixels/sec 4.44 Gpixels/sec
Feature Matching 0.07 Gpixels/sec 0.73 Gpixels/sec
Stereo Matching 18.2 Gpixels/sec 264.9 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 828.6 FPS 11144.2 FPS
API OpenCL OpenCL
Sources: Geekbench [3], [4]

Cinebench 2024 GPU

Hardware benchmark using Maxon's Cinema 4D rendering engine
Cinebench 2024 GPU

Passmark Graphics

Videocard test that focuses on compute shaders, multi-texturing, tessellation, and other features
G3D Mark Score
G2D Mark 535 -
DirectX 11 17 FPS -
DirectX 12 7 FPS -
GPU Compute 768 Ops/s -
Sources: PassMark [5] – 194 samples

Blender

Rendering performance test for 3D modeling
Blender GPU
Radeon 610M
47.48
M2 Max GPU (38-core) +3641%
1776.37
Sources: Blender [9], [10] – 47 & 301 samples
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Recent User Tests

The latest benchmark tests that have been submitted by users
Radeon 610M
DateBenchmarkResult
📘 2026-05-05 (StarSophia)Steel Nomad Light614
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Artificial Intelligence Tests

Performance in machine learning and artificial intelligence tasks

GeekBench 6 ML

Tests throughput of AI operations in single, half, and quantized precision
GB6 ML Single Precision
GB6 ML Half Precision
GB6 ML Quantized
Image Classification (SP) 660 6657
Image Segmentation (HP) 627 13854
Image Super Resolution (Q) 2053 18642
Face Detection (HP) 2153 27965
Pose Estimation (Q) 5787 83144
Text Classification (SP) 713 2377
Machine Translation (HP) 1114 2052
Object Detection (SP) 709 6495
Depth Estimation (Q) 3233 31105
Style Transfer (SP) 11091 135686
Framework ONNX Core ML
Backend DirectML GPU
Sources: Geekbench [9], [10]
Results were compared using different ML frameworks

Specifications

Technical specifications of Radeon 610M and Apple M2 Max GPU (38-core)

General

Vendor Amd Apple
Build Integrated Integrated
Released October 1, 2022 January 17, 2023
Case Laptop Laptop
Purpose Generic Professional
Segment Entry-level High-end
Architecture RDNA 2.0 Apple M GPU
GPU Codename Mendocino -
Rival Equivalent - - GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop
Successor - - Apple M5 Max GPU (40-core)
Recommended CPU - AMD Ryzen 5 7520U or above -
Used in CPUs - AMD Ryzen 9 8945HX
- AMD Ryzen 9 8940HX
- AMD Ryzen 9 9850HX
- AMD Ryzen 9 9955HX
- AMD Ryzen 9 9955HX3D
- AMD Ryzen 5 9600X
- AMD Ryzen 7 9700X
- AMD Ryzen 9 7945HX3D
- and 6 more		 - Apple M2 Max
Laptop GPU ranking (126th and 42nd place)

Graphics Processing Unit

Base Clock 400 MHz 450 MHz
Boost Clock 1900-2200 MHz (configurable) 1398 MHz
Shading Units 128 4864
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 8 304
Render Output Units (ROPs) 4 152
Compute Units (Pipelines) 2 608
Ray-tracing Cores 2 -
L1 Cache 128KB per cluster -
L2 Cache 2MB shared -
Instructions Per Cycle 2 IPC 2 IPC

Raw Performance

Pixel Fill Rate 8-9 GPixel/s 212 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 15-18 GTexel/s 425 GTexel/s
FLOPS (FP32)
Radeon 610M
0.5-0.6 TFLOPS
M2 Max GPU (38-core) +2167%
13.6 TFLOPS

Physical

Interface PCIe 4.0 x8 Custom
TGP 15 W 70 W
Manufacturing TSMC TSMC
Fabrication Process 6 nm 5 nm
Die Size 122 mm² -
Transistor Count 3.4 billion 52 billion
Transistor Density 27.87 MTr/mm² -
Max. Temperature - 94°C

Memory

Memory Type System Shared System Shared
Memory Clock - 6400 MHz
Effective Memory Speed - 12800 Mbps
Bus - 512-bit
ECC No No
Memory Bandwidth

API

DirectX 12 -
Vulkan 1.3 -
OpenGL 4.6 -
OpenCL 2.0 -
Ray Tracing Yes No
DLSS No No

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