AMD Radeon 780M vs Apple M2 Pro GPU (19-core)

We compared two integrated laptop graphics cards: the Radeon 780M with 12 pipelines and 768 shaders against the Apple M2 Pro GPU (19-core) that utilizes 304 pipelines and 2432 shaders. Here you will find complete details about specs, efficiency, performance tests, and more.

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 Pro GPU (19-core) over Radeon 780M
Reasons to consider the Radeon 780M
  • Manufactured using a more efficient 4 nm process technology
Reasons to consider the Apple M2 Pro GPU (19-core)
  • Performs significantly better (up to 92%) in 3DMark Steel Nomad Lite
  • 58% higher maximum theoretical performance (6.8 vs 4.3 TFLOPS)
  • Has 3.2x more shading units (2432 vs 768)
  • Achieves 51% more points in the GeekBench 6 Compute test (49K vs 32K)

Gaming Performance

Frame rate comparison across popular AAA titles at different resolutions

Games

FPS Table
Forza Horizon 5
52
26
22
11
-
The Witcher 3
26
26
13
-
-
Counter-Strike 2
44
31
21
9
-
Far Cry 6
39
29
21
10
-
Hogwarts Legacy
22
15
11
-
-
CoD: Modern Warfare III
34
29
19
12
-
Ghost of Tsushima
21
15
10
-
-
Cyberpunk 2077
19
20
10
-
-
Shadow of the Tomb Raider
36
31
20
9
-
Average FPS by Resolution
1080p High 33 -
1080p Ultra 25 -
1440p Ultra 16 -
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 2787 -
Solar Bay 11525 16218
Port Royal 1579 -
Fire Strike 7885 -
Wild Life Extreme 5305 12726
Night Raid 33367 -
Sources: 3DMark [1], [2]

GeekBench 6 OpenCL

GPU test for computational tasks (image processing, photography, computer vision, and ML)
GB6 Compute Score
Background Blur 86.4 img/sec 89.7 img/sec
Face Detection 35.8 img/sec 58 img/sec
Horizon Detection 1.03 Gpixels/sec 1.94 Gpixels/sec
Edge Detection 1.36 Gpixels/sec 3.26 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 1.41 Gpixels/sec 2.19 Gpixels/sec
Feature Matching 0.41 Gpixels/sec 0.55 Gpixels/sec
Stereo Matching 132.4 Gpixels/sec 163 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 4470.7 FPS 6139.2 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 885 -
DirectX 11 65 FPS -
DirectX 12 30 FPS -
GPU Compute 3577 Ops/s -
Sources: PassMark [5] – 12072 samples

Blender

Rendering performance test for 3D modeling
Blender GPU
262.43
890.37
Sources: Blender [9], [10] – 182 & 207 samples

Recent User Tests

The latest benchmark tests that have been submitted by users
Radeon 780M
DateBenchmarkResult
📘 2026-08-17 -> RennsportGeekbench 6 OpenCL32197
📘 2026-02-26 (iFraan)Geekbench 6 OpenCL28558
Apple M2 Pro GPU (19-core)
No benchmark results yet

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) 3860 5279
Image Segmentation (HP) 5435 8089
Image Super Resolution (Q) 10580 15007
Face Detection (HP) 12855 19212
Pose Estimation (Q) 34716 44046
Text Classification (SP) 2578 2280
Machine Translation (HP) 3897 1972
Object Detection (SP) 3078 4941
Depth Estimation (Q) 14989 22209
Style Transfer (SP) 78608 79898
Framework ONNX Core ML
Backend DirectML GPU
Sources: Geekbench [9], [10]
Results were compared using different ML frameworks

Specifications

Technical specifications of Radeon 780M and Apple M2 Pro GPU (19-core)

General

Vendor Amd Apple
Build Integrated Integrated
Released January 4, 2023 January 17, 2023
Case Laptop Laptop
Purpose Generic Professional
Segment Mid-range High-end
Architecture RDNA 3.0 Apple M GPU
GPU Codename Phoenix -
Rival Equivalent - Intel Arc iGPU (8-Cores) - GeForce RTX 3050 Laptop
Successor - Radeon 8050S - Apple M5 Pro GPU (20-core)
Recommended CPU - AMD Ryzen 7 7840U or above - Apple M2 Pro 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 Pro
Laptop GPU ranking (99th and 70th place)

Graphics Processing Unit

Base Clock 800 MHz 450 MHz
Boost Clock 2700-2800 MHz (configurable) 1398 MHz
Shading Units 768 2432
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 48 152
Render Output Units (ROPs) 32 76
Compute Units (Pipelines) 12 304
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 106 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 130-134 GTexel/s 212 GTexel/s
FLOPS (FP32)
4.1-4.3 TFLOPS
6.8 TFLOPS

Physical

Interface PCIe 4.0 x8 Custom
TGP 15 W 35 W
Manufacturing TSMC TSMC
Fabrication Process 4 nm 5 nm
Die Size 178 mm² -
Transistor Count 25.4 billion 26 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 - 256-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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