AMD Radeon 860M vs Apple M4 Ultra GPU (80-core)

Compared 2 processors: AMD Radeon 860M, vs Apple M4 Ultra GPU (80-core). Below are specs, tests, pros and cons for each device

Review

Key Specs AMD Radeon 860M and Apple M4 Ultra GPU (80-core)
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 M4 Ultra GPU (80-core)
25937
GeekBench v6
GB6 Compute Score
AMD Radeon 860M
25630
Apple M4 Ultra GPU (80-core)
218394
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
APIOpenCLOpenCL

Tech Specs

Specs & test comparison

General Info

Manufacturer AMD Apple
Build Integrated Integrated
Announced January, 7, 2025 May, 1, 2025
Form Factor Laptop use Laptop use
Use case Universal Professional
Segment Mid-range High-end
Architecture RDNA 3.5 Apple M GPU
Codename Krackan Point Custom

GPU

GPU Frequency n/a 500 MHz
Boost GPU Frequency 3000 MHz 1800 MHz
Shader Units 512 10240
TMUs 32 640
ROPs 16 320
Execution Units 8 1280
Ray Tracing Cores 8 n/a
Instructions per Clock 4 IPC 2 IPC

Performance

Pixel Fill Rate 48 Gpix/sec 576 Gpix/sec
Texture Fill Rate 96 GTex/s 1152 GTex/s
FLOPS 6.1 TFLOPS 36.9 TFLOPS

Process

Interface PCIe 4.0 x16 Custom
TGP 15-54 W 120 W
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 8533 MHz
Bus n/a 1024 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

After analyzing the data, we consider AMD Radeon 860M the clear winner in this comparison.

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