AMD Radeon Pro 5300M vs Apple M3 Pro GPU (18-core)

We performed a head-to-head comparison of the Radeon Pro 5300M 4 GB with 20 pipelines and 1280 shaders against the 4 years newer Apple M3 Pro GPU (18-core) that utilizes 288 pipelines and 2304 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 M3 Pro GPU (18-core) over Pro 5300M
Reasons to consider the Radeon Pro 5300M
  • Includes 4 GB of dedicated GDDR6 memory
  • Has 25% higher memory bandwidth: 192 vs 153.6 GB/s
Reasons to consider the Apple M3 Pro GPU (18-core)
  • Manufactured using a more efficient 3 nm process technology
  • 2x higher maximum theoretical performance (6.4 vs 3.2 TFLOPS)
  • Achieves 59% more points in the GeekBench 6 Compute test (43K vs 27K)
  • Has 80% more shading units (2304 vs 1280)

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 3404 -
Solar Bay - 22637
Wild Life Extreme - 14021
Sources: 3DMark [1], [2]

GeekBench 6 OpenCL

GPU test for computational tasks (image processing, photography, computer vision, and ML)
GB6 Compute Score
27065
Background Blur 59.6 img/sec 82.1 img/sec
Face Detection 34.3 img/sec 53.6 img/sec
Horizon Detection 1.19 Gpixels/sec 1.82 Gpixels/sec
Edge Detection 1.56 Gpixels/sec 2.59 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 1.31 Gpixels/sec 1.84 Gpixels/sec
Feature Matching 0.28 Gpixels/sec 0.48 Gpixels/sec
Stereo Matching 95.4 Gpixels/sec 148.6 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 2473.3 FPS 4893.9 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
G3D Mark Score
G2D Mark 562 -
DirectX 11 36 FPS -
DirectX 12 25 FPS -
GPU Compute 2559 Ops/s -
Sources: PassMark [5] – 141 samples

Blender

Rendering performance test for 3D modeling
Blender GPU
238.18
1692.54
Sources: Blender [9], [10] – 42 & 240 samples

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
3321
11804
GB6 ML Half Precision
3307
13606
GB6 ML Quantized
1043
12673
Image Classification (SP) 2457 5578
Image Segmentation (HP) 394 9924
Image Super Resolution (Q) 6055 13323
Face Detection (HP) 9021 19900
Pose Estimation (Q) 2239 35730
Text Classification (SP) 344 2904
Machine Translation (HP) 458 4985
Object Detection (SP) 2523 5496
Depth Estimation (Q) 10775 23344
Style Transfer (SP) 30282 78342
Framework Core ML Core ML
Backend GPU GPU
Sources: Geekbench [9], [10]

Specifications

Technical specifications of Radeon Pro 5300M and Apple M3 Pro GPU (18-core)

General

Vendor Amd Apple
Build Discrete Integrated
Released November 13, 2019 October 31, 2023
Case Laptop Laptop
Purpose Gaming Professional
Segment Mid-range Mid-range
Architecture RDNA 1.0 Apple M GPU
GPU Codename Navi 14 Custom
Rival Equivalent - - GeForce RTX 4060 Laptop
Successor - - Apple M5 Pro GPU (20-core)
Recommended CPU - - Apple M3 Pro or above
Used in CPUs - - Apple M3 Pro
Laptop GPU ranking (118th and 61st place)

Graphics Processing Unit

Base Clock 1000 MHz 500 MHz
Boost Clock 1250 MHz 1380 MHz
Shading Units 1280 2304
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 80 144
Render Output Units (ROPs) 32 72
Compute Units (Pipelines) 20 288
Tensor Cores No -
Ray-tracing Cores No -
L2 Cache 2MB shared -
Instructions Per Cycle 2 IPC 2 IPC

Raw Performance

Pixel Fill Rate 40 GPixel/s 99 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 100 GTexel/s 199 GTexel/s
FLOPS (FP32)
3.2 TFLOPS
6.4 TFLOPS

Physical

Interface PCIe 4.0 x8 Custom
TGP 85 W 30 W
Manufacturing TSMC TSMC
Fabrication Process 7 nm 3 nm
Die Size 158 mm² -
Transistor Count 6.4 billion 25.2 billion
Transistor Density 40.51 MTr/mm² -
Max. Temperature - 100°C

Memory

Memory Type GDDR6 System Shared
Memory Size 4 GB -
Memory Clock 1500 MHz 6400 MHz
Effective Memory Speed 12000 Mbps 12800 Mbps
Bus 128-bit 192-bit
ECC - No
Memory Bandwidth
Pro 5300M +25%
192 GB/s

API

DirectX 12 -
Vulkan 1.2 -
OpenGL 4.6 -
OpenCL 2.1 -
Ray Tracing No Yes
DLSS No No
DisplayPort 1.4 -

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