AMD Radeon 780M vs Apple M2 GPU (8-core)
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AMD Radeon 780M
Phoenix
We compared two integrated laptop graphics cards: the Radeon 780M with 12 pipelines and 768 shaders against the 7 months older Apple M2 GPU (8-core) that utilizes 128 pipelines and 1024 shaders. Here you will find complete details about specs, efficiency, performance tests, and more.
Review
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
Reasons to consider the Radeon 780M
- Performs slightly better (up to 15%) in 3DMark Steel Nomad Lite
- 48% higher maximum theoretical performance (4.3 vs 2.9 TFLOPS)
- Manufactured using a more efficient 4 nm process technology
Reasons to consider the Apple M2 GPU (8-core)
- Has 33% more shading units (1024 vs 768)
Gaming Performance
Frame rate comparison across popular AAA titles at different resolutionsGames
| Forza Horizon 5 | 52 26 22 11 |
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| The Witcher 3 | 26 26 13 - |
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| Counter-Strike 2 | 44 31 21 9 |
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| Far Cry 6 | 39 29 21 10 |
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| Hogwarts Legacy | 22 15 11 - |
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| CoD: Modern Warfare III | 34 29 19 12 |
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| Ghost of Tsushima | 21 15 10 - |
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| Cyberpunk 2077 | 19 20 10 - |
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| Shadow of the Tomb Raider | 36 31 20 9 |
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| 1080p High | 33 | - |
| 1080p Ultra | 25 | - |
| 1440p Ultra | 16 | - |
| 4K Ultra | - | - |
| Margin of Error | Low | Low |
Benchmarks
Graphics cards’ performance in recent benchmarking apps3D Mark
Steel Nomad Lite Score
| Time Spy | 2787 | - |
| Solar Bay | 11525 | 7316 |
| Port Royal | 1579 | - |
| Fire Strike | 7885 | - |
| Wild Life Extreme | 5305 | 5676 |
| Night Raid | 33367 | - |
GeekBench 6 OpenCL
GB6 Compute Score
| Background Blur | 86.4 img/sec | 58.7 img/sec |
| Face Detection | 35.8 img/sec | 35.2 img/sec |
| Horizon Detection | 1.03 Gpixels/sec | 1.1 Gpixels/sec |
| Edge Detection | 1.36 Gpixels/sec | 1.82 Gpixels/sec |
| Gaussian Blur | 1.41 Gpixels/sec | 1.2 Gpixels/sec |
| Feature Matching | 0.41 Gpixels/sec | 0.37 Gpixels/sec |
| Stereo Matching | 132.4 Gpixels/sec | 96 Gpixels/sec |
| Particle Physics | 4470.7 FPS | 3825.9 FPS |
| API | OpenCL | OpenCL |
Cinebench 2024 GPU
Cinebench 2024 GPU
Passmark Graphics
G3D Mark Score
| G2D Mark | 885 | - |
| DirectX 11 | 65 FPS | - |
| DirectX 12 | 30 FPS | - |
| GPU Compute | 3577 Ops/s | - |
Blender
Blender GPU
Recent User Tests
Radeon 780M
| Date | Benchmark | Result |
|---|---|---|
| 📘 2026-10-01 -> Rennsport | Geekbench 6 OpenCL | 27852 |
| 📘 2026-10-01 -> Rennsport | Geekbench 7 OpenCL | 23850 |
| 📘 2026-10-01 -> Rennsport | Geekbench 7 OpenCL | 28775 |
| 📘 2026-08-17 -> Rennsport | Geekbench 6 OpenCL | 32197 |
| 📘 2026-02-26 (iFraan) | Geekbench 6 OpenCL | 28558 |
Apple M2 GPU (8-core)
No benchmark results yet
Artificial Intelligence Tests
Performance in machine learning and artificial intelligence tasksGeekBench 6 ML
GB6 ML Single Precision
GB6 ML Half Precision
GB6 ML Quantized
| Image Classification (SP) | 3860 | 3242 |
| Image Segmentation (HP) | 5435 | 4890 |
| Image Super Resolution (Q) | 10580 | 7149 |
| Face Detection (HP) | 12855 | 10340 |
| Pose Estimation (Q) | 34716 | 21268 |
| Text Classification (SP) | 2578 | 2268 |
| Machine Translation (HP) | 3897 | 1122 |
| Object Detection (SP) | 3078 | 3007 |
| Depth Estimation (Q) | 14989 | 13941 |
| Style Transfer (SP) | 78608 | 35943 |
| Framework | ONNX | Core ML |
| Backend | DirectML | GPU |
Results were compared using different ML frameworks
Specifications
Technical specifications of Radeon 780M and Apple M2 GPU (8-core)General
| Vendor | Amd | Apple |
| Build | Integrated | Integrated |
| Released | January 4, 2023 | June 6, 2022 |
| Case | Laptop | Laptop |
| Purpose | Generic | Professional |
| Segment | Mid-range | Mid-range |
| Architecture | RDNA 3.0 | Apple M GPU |
| GPU Codename | Phoenix | - |
| Rival Equivalent | - Intel Arc iGPU (8-Cores) | - |
| Successor | - Radeon 8050S | - Apple M5 GPU (10-Core) |
| Recommended CPU | - AMD Ryzen 7 7840U or above | - Apple M2 or above |
| Used in CPUs | - AMD Ryzen 7 H 255 - AMD Ryzen 7 8745HS - AMD Ryzen 7 250 - AMD Ryzen 7 260 - AMD Ryzen 9 270 - AMD Ryzen Z1 Extreme - AMD Ryzen 7 8700G - AMD Ryzen 9 8945HS - and 6 more |
- Apple M2 |
Laptop GPU ranking (99th and 90th place)
Graphics Processing Unit
| Base Clock | 800 MHz | 500 MHz |
| Boost Clock | 2700-2800 MHz (configurable) | 1398 MHz |
| Shading Units | 768 | 1024 |
| Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) | 48 | 64 |
| Render Output Units (ROPs) | 32 | 32 |
| Compute Units (Pipelines) | 12 | 128 |
| Ray-tracing Cores | 12 | - |
| L1 Cache | 128KB per cluster | - |
| L2 Cache | 2MB shared | - |
| Instructions Per Cycle | 2 IPC | 2 IPC |
Raw Performance
| Pixel Fill Rate | 86-90 GPixel/s | 45 GPixel/s |
| Texture Fill Rate | 130-134 GTexel/s | 89 GTexel/s |
FLOPS (FP32)
Physical
| Interface | PCIe 4.0 x8 | Custom |
| TGP | 15 W | 15 W |
| Manufacturing | TSMC | TSMC |
| Fabrication Process | 4 nm | 5 nm |
| Die Size | 178 mm² | - |
| Transistor Count | 25.4 billion | 11.6 billion |
| Transistor Density | 142.7 MTr/mm² | - |
| Max. Temperature | - | 94°C |
Memory
| Memory Type | System Shared | System Shared |
| Memory Clock | - | 6400 MHz |
| Effective Memory Speed | - | 12800 Mbps |
| Bus | - | 128-bit |
| ECC | - | No |
Memory Bandwidth
API
| DirectX | 12 | - |
| Vulkan | 1.3 | - |
| OpenGL | 4.6 | - |
| OpenCL | 2.1 | - |
| Ray Tracing | Yes | No |
| DLSS | No | No |
| DisplayPort | 2.1 | - |
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