AMD Radeon Graphics iGPU (Ryzen 7000) vs Apple M2 GPU (8-core)

We compared two integrated laptop graphics cards: the Radeon Graphics iGPU (Ryzen 7000) with 2 pipelines and 128 shaders against the 4 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

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 GPU (8-core) over Graphics iGPU (Ryzen 7000)
Reasons to consider the Apple M2 GPU (8-core)
  • Performs significantly better (up to 3.8x) in 3DMark Steel Nomad Lite
  • 4.8x higher maximum theoretical performance (2.9 vs 0.6 TFLOPS)
  • Manufactured using a more efficient 5 nm process technology
  • Achieves 4.7x more points in the GeekBench 6 Compute test (29K vs 6K)
  • Has 8x more shading units (1024 vs 128)

Gaming Performance

Frame rate comparison across popular AAA titles at different resolutions

Games

FPS Table
Forza Horizon 5
13
-
-
-
-
Counter-Strike 2
19
14
10
-
-
Far Cry 6
11
-
-
-
-
CoD: Modern Warfare III
15
10
10
-
-
Ghost of Tsushima
-
-
-
-
-
Shadow of the Tomb Raider
-
9
-
-
-
Average FPS by Resolution
1080p High 10 -
1080p Ultra - -
1440p Ultra - -
4K Ultra - -
Margin of Error Low Low

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 711 -
Solar Bay 2915 7316
Port Royal 333 -
Fire Strike 2412 -
Wild Life Extreme 1404 5676
Night Raid 9994 -
Sources: 3DMark [1], [2]

GeekBench 6 OpenCL

GPU test for computational tasks (image processing, photography, computer vision, and ML)
GB6 Compute Score
Background Blur 13.4 img/sec 58.7 img/sec
Face Detection 8.66 img/sec 35.2 img/sec
Horizon Detection 0.23 Gpixels/sec 1.1 Gpixels/sec
Edge Detection 0.32 Gpixels/sec 1.82 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 0.2 Gpixels/sec 1.2 Gpixels/sec
Feature Matching 0.08 Gpixels/sec 0.37 Gpixels/sec
Stereo Matching 24.2 Gpixels/sec 96 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 827 FPS 3825.9 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
G2D Mark 515 -
DirectX 11 16 FPS -
DirectX 12 7 FPS -
GPU Compute 1159 Ops/s -
Sources: PassMark [5]455 samples

Blender

Rendering performance test for 3D modeling
Sources: Blender [9]81 samples

Recent User Tests

The latest benchmark tests that have been submitted by users
Radeon Graphics iGPU (Ryzen 7000)
DateBenchmarkResult
📘 2026-04-27 -> Lello75Geekbench 6 OpenCL5946
Apple M2 GPU (8-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) 679 3242
Image Segmentation (HP) 642 4890
Image Super Resolution (Q) 2131 7149
Face Detection (HP) 2204 10340
Pose Estimation (Q) 5478 21268
Text Classification (SP) 728 2268
Machine Translation (HP) 1231 1122
Object Detection (SP) 729 3007
Depth Estimation (Q) 3337 13941
Style Transfer (SP) 11335 35943
Framework ONNX Core ML
Backend DirectML GPU
Sources: Geekbench [9], [10]
Results were compared using different ML frameworks

Specifications

Technical specifications of Radeon Graphics iGPU (Ryzen 7000) and Apple M2 GPU (8-core)

General

Vendor Amd Apple
Build Integrated Integrated
Released October 1, 2022 June 6, 2022
Case Laptop Laptop
Purpose Generic Professional
Segment Entry-level Mid-range
Architecture RDNA 2.0 Apple M GPU
GPU Codename Raphael -
Rival Equivalent - Intel UHD Graphics 770 -
Successor - - Apple M5 GPU (10-Core)
Recommended CPU - AMD Ryzen 5 7600 or above - Apple M2 or above
Used in CPUs - AMD Ryzen 9 Pro 9965X3D
- AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D2
- AMD Ryzen 9 Pro 9945
- AMD Ryzen 7 Pro 9745
- AMD Ryzen 5 Pro 9645
- AMD Ryzen 7 9850X3D
- AMD Ryzen 9 9900X3D
- AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D
- and 14 more
- Apple M2
Laptop GPU ranking (121st and 88th place)

Graphics Processing Unit

Base Clock 400 MHz 500 MHz
Boost Clock 2200 MHz 1398 MHz
Shading Units 128 1024
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 8 64
Render Output Units (ROPs) 4 32
Compute Units (Pipelines) 2 128
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 9 GPixel/s 45 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 18 GTexel/s 89 GTexel/s
FLOPS (FP32)
2.9 TFLOPS

Physical

Interface PCIe 4.0 x8 Custom
TGP 15 W 15 W
Manufacturing TSMC TSMC
Fabrication Process 6 nm 5 nm
Die Size 122 mm² -
Transistor Count 3.4 billion 11.6 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 - 128-bit
ECC No No
Memory Bandwidth

API

DirectX 12.2 -
Vulkan 1.3 -
OpenGL 4.6 -
OpenCL 2.0 -
Ray Tracing Yes No
DLSS No No
Further details
Notes on Graphics iGPU (Ryzen 7000):
    - Radeon Graphics iGPU (Ryzen 7000) in essence is just rebranded Radeon 610M.

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