AMD Radeon 860M vs Apple A18 Pro GPU

Compared 2 processors: AMD Radeon 860M, vs Apple A18 Pro GPU. Below are specs, tests, pros and cons for each device

Review

Key Specs AMD Radeon 860M and Apple A18 Pro GPU
Games
Performance in DirectX, OpenCL, Vulkan
AI/ML
AI workload testing
Professional Apps
3D modeling, video editing, rendering
Energy Efficiency
Power usage in various scenarios
NanoReview Score
Overall score by NanoReview

Tests & specs

Specs & test comparison

Benchmarks

CPU performance comparison across tasks
3DMark
Steel Nomad Lite Score
AMD Radeon 860M
2572
Apple A18 Pro GPU
1795
Solar Bayn/a7273
GeekBench v6
GB6 Compute Score
AMD Radeon 860M
25630
Apple A18 Pro GPU
31229
Background Blur57.2 frames/sn/a
Face Detection30.5 frames/sn/a
Horizon Detection0.83 Gpix/secn/a
Edge Detection1.16 Gpix/secn/a
Gaussian Blur0.93 Gpix/secn/a
Feature Matching0.35 Gpix/secn/a
Stereo Matching97.8 Gpix/secn/a
Particle Physics3933.5 fpsn/a
APIOpenCLn/a
Geekbench 6 ML
GB6 ML Single Precision
AMD Radeon 860M
n/a
Apple A18 Pro GPU
6982
GB6 ML Half Precision
AMD Radeon 860M
n/a
Apple A18 Pro GPU
8282
GB6 ML Quantized
AMD Radeon 860M
n/a
Apple A18 Pro GPU
7200
Image Classification (SP)n/a3264
Image Segmentation (HP)n/a4550
Horizon Detectionn/a6705
Face Detection (HP)n/a11770
Pose Estimation (Q)n/a15548
Text Classification (SP)n/a3678
Machine Translation (HP)n/a5678
Object Detection (SP)n/a3360
Depth Estimation (Q)n/a13468
Style Transfer (SP)n/a31541
Frameworkn/aCore ML
Backendn/aGPU

Tech Specs

Specs & test comparison

General Info

Manufacturer AMD Apple
Build Integrated Integrated
Announced January, 7, 2025 September, 9, 2024
Form Factor Laptop use Laptop use
Use case Universal Universal
Segment Mid-range Mid-range
Architecture RDNA 3.5 Apple M GPU
Codename Krackan Point Custom

GPU

Boost GPU Frequency 3000 MHz 1490 MHz
Shader Units 512 768
TMUs 32 40
ROPs 16 n/a
Execution Units 8 128
Ray Tracing Cores 8 n/a
Instructions per Clock 4 IPC 2 IPC

Performance

Pixel Fill Rate 48 Gpix/sec n/a
Texture Fill Rate 96 GTex/s 60 GTex/s
FLOPS 6.1 TFLOPS 2.3 TFLOPS

Process

Interface PCIe 4.0 x16 Custom
TGP 15-54 W n/a
Process TSMC TSMC
Process tech. 4 nm 3 nm
Max temperature 100 °C n/a

Memory

Interface System Shared System Shared
Memory Frequency n/a 7500 MHz
Bus n/a 128 bit
ECC support n/a No

API

DirectX 12 n/a
Vulkan 1.4 n/a
OpenGL 4.6 n/a
DisplayPort 2.1 n/a
Ray Tracing Yes Yes
DLSS No No

Results

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