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AMD Radeon RX Vega 7 vs Apple M1 Max GPU (32-core)

Radeon RX Vega 7
VS
Apple M1 Max GPU (32-core)
AMD Radeon RX Vega 7
Apple M1 Max GPU (32-core)

We compared two integrated laptop graphics cards: the Radeon RX Vega 7 with 7 pipelines and 448 shaders against the 1 year and 10 months newer Apple M1 Max GPU (32-core) that utilizes 512 pipelines and 4096 shaders. Here you will find complete details about specs, efficiency, performance tests, and more.

  1. Review
  2. Differences
  3. Benchmarks
  4. AI
  5. Specs
  6. 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 M1 Max GPU (32-core) over RX Vega 7
Reasons to consider the Apple M1 Max GPU (32-core)
  • Performs significantly better (up to 7.8x) in 3DMark Steel Nomad Lite
  • 5.9x higher maximum theoretical performance (10.6 vs 1.8 TFLOPS)
  • Manufactured using a more efficient 5 nm process technology
  • Achieves 5x more points in the GeekBench 6 Compute test (71K vs 14K)
  • Has 9.1x more shading units (4096 vs 448)
GPU
RX Vega 7
vs
M1 Max GPU (32-core)

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 1067 -
Solar Bay - 22586
Fire Strike 3394 -
Wild Life Extreme 2013 19880
Night Raid 13085 -
Sources: 3DMark [1], [2]

GeekBench 6 OpenCL

GPU test for computational tasks (image processing, photography, computer vision, and ML)
GB6 Compute Score
RX Vega 7
14408
M1 Max GPU (32-core) +400%
71977
Background Blur 33.7 img/sec 120.7 img/sec
Face Detection 15.4 img/sec 78.9 img/sec
Horizon Detection 0.35 Gpixels/sec 3.18 Gpixels/sec
Edge Detection 0.76 Gpixels/sec 6.15 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 0.69 Gpixels/sec 3.44 Gpixels/sec
Feature Matching 0.21 Gpixels/sec 0.62 Gpixels/sec
Stereo Matching 54.7 Gpixels/sec 229.8 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 1957.6 FPS 8822.9 FPS
API OpenCL OpenCL
Sources: Geekbench [3], [4]

Passmark Graphics

Videocard test that focuses on compute shaders, multi-texturing, tessellation, and other features
G3D Mark Score
G2D Mark 568 -
DirectX 11 16 FPS -
DirectX 12 11 FPS -
GPU Compute 1215 Ops/s -
Sources: PassMark [5] – 88 samples

Blender

Rendering performance test for 3D modeling
Blender GPU
Sources: Blender [9] – 666 samples
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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
RX Vega 7
3157
M1 Max GPU (32-core) +287%
12213
GB6 ML Half Precision
RX Vega 7
4191
M1 Max GPU (32-core) +230%
13810
GB6 ML Quantized
RX Vega 7
2365
M1 Max GPU (32-core) +439%
12739
Image Classification (SP) 1323 5466
Image Segmentation (HP) 1675 12415
Image Super Resolution (Q) 2919 15930
Face Detection (HP) 4386 23179
Pose Estimation (Q) 9348 58520
Text Classification (SP) 1024 2299
Machine Translation (HP) 1888 1713
Object Detection (SP) 1452 5388
Depth Estimation (Q) 5272 26458
Style Transfer (SP) 19585 98278
Framework ONNX Core ML
Backend DirectML GPU
Sources: Geekbench [9], [10]
Results were compared using different ML frameworks

Specifications

Technical specifications of Radeon RX Vega 7 and Apple M1 Max GPU (32-core)

General

Vendor Amd Apple
Build Integrated Integrated
Released January 7, 2020 October 18, 2021
Case Laptop Laptop
Purpose Generic Professional
Segment Entry-level High-end
Architecture Raven Apple M GPU
Rival Equivalent - - GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop
Successor - Radeon Graphics iGPU (Ryzen 7000) - Apple M5 Max GPU (40-core)
Recommended CPU - AMD Ryzen 5 5500U or above - Apple M1 Max or above
Used in CPUs - AMD Ryzen 5 7430U
- AMD Ryzen 5 7530U
- AMD Ryzen 5 5625U
- AMD Ryzen 5 Pro 5650U
- AMD Ryzen 5 5600G
- AMD Ryzen 5 5600U
- AMD Ryzen 5 5600H
- AMD Ryzen 5 5500U
- and 4 more		 - Apple M1 Max
Laptop GPU ranking (119th and 53rd place)

Graphics Processing Unit

Base Clock 300 MHz 450 MHz
Boost Clock 1500-2000 MHz (configurable) 1296 MHz
Shading Units 448 4096
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 28 256
Render Output Units (ROPs) 8 128
Compute Units (Pipelines) 7 512
Tensor Cores No -
Ray-tracing Cores No No
Instructions Per Cycle 2 IPC 2 IPC

Raw Performance

Pixel Fill Rate 12-16 GPixel/s 166 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 42-56 GTexel/s 332 GTexel/s
FLOPS (FP32)
RX Vega 7
1.3-1.8 TFLOPS
M1 Max GPU (32-core) +489%
10.6 TFLOPS

Physical

Interface IGP Custom
TGP 15 W -
Manufacturing TSMC TSMC
Fabrication Process 7 nm 5 nm
Transistor Count - 46.4 billion
Max. Temperature - 94°C

Memory

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

API

DirectX 12.1 -
OpenGL 4.6 -
OpenCL 2.2 -
Ray Tracing No No
DLSS No No

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