AMD Radeon Pro 5300M vs Apple M2 Pro 16-Core GPU vs Apple M2 8-Core GPU
AMD Radeon Pro 5300M
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The AMD Radeon Pro 5300M is a dedicated mobile mid-range graphics card for laptops. It uses the new Navi 14 chip (RDNA architecture) which is produced in 7nm. The Pro 5300M was announced in the entry level Apple MacBook Pro 16 in late 2019 and features 4 GB of GDDR6 VRAM. Compared to the similar named Radeon RX 5300M, the Pro 5300M features different specifications with 20 instead of 22 CUs and the full 128 Bit memory bus but reduced clock speeds.
The Navi 14 chip uses the new RDNA (Radeon DNA) microarchitecture which is a successor the the GCN instruction set. It features a new processor design, a multi-level cache hierarchy and an improved rendering pipeline with support for GDDR6 memory.
The RX5300M competes directly with the GeForce GTX 1650 and should offer a similar gaming performance. Therefore, we expect the Radeon Pro 5300M to offer a similar performance. The faster Radeon Pro 5500M in the higher end versions of the MBP16 is faster and compares against a GeForce GTX 1660 Ti.
The mobile RX5300M is specified with a TDP of 65 Watt (versus 85W of the RX 5500M). The "Pro" version however is specified at 50 Watt TGP and therefore the same as the faster Radeon Pro 5500M.
Apple M2 Pro 16-Core GPU
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The Apple M2 Pro 16-Core-GPU is an integrated graphics card by Apple offering all 16 of the 19 cores in the M2 Pro 10-Core Chip.
The graphics card has no dedicated graphics memory but can use the fast LPDDR5-6400 unified memory with a 256 bit bus (up to 200 GBit/s).
According to Apple, the performance of the 19-core-GPU should be 30% higher than the old 16-core-GPU in the M1 Pro. Therefore, the cut down 16-core version should still beat the old full-featured 16-core M1 Pro slightly and the old 14-core more clearly.
The GPU is intended to use Apple Metal 2 API and could still be based on the older PowerVR architectures (last used in the Apple A10). A new feature in the MacBook Pro 14 of 2023 is the support for HDMI 2.1 and 8k output.
The Apple M2 Pro is manufactured in the second generation 5nm process at TSMC.
Apple M2 8-Core GPU
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The Apple M2 8-core GPU is an integrated graphics card offering 8 of the 10 cores designed by Apple and integrated in the Apple M2 SoC. It uses the unified memory architecture of the M2 SoC (up to 24 GB LPDDR5-6400 with 100 GB/s bandwidth) and should offer 128 execution units.
The performance is positioned right between the old 8-core model in the M1 GPU and the higher end 10-core model in the M2. The theoretical performance should be around 2.9 Teraflops, as the 8-core version offers the same 1,398 MHz maximum clock rate as the 10-core version. Compared to other iGPUs from AMD and Intel, the M2 benefits greatly from the unified memory architecture and the high bandwidth.
The M2 chip is manufactured in the second generation 5nm process at TSMC (most likely N5P). The power consumption is around 10 Watt (in our tests under load of the MBP13) compared to the 13.5W of the 10-core version.
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| Codename | Navi 14 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Architecture | Navi / RDNA | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Pipelines | 1280 - unified | 16 - unified | 8 - unified | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Core Speed | 1250 (Boost) MHz | 1398 (Boost) MHz | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Memory Speed | 12000 MHz | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Memory Bus Width | 128 Bit | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Memory Type | GDDR6 | LPDDR5-6400 | LPDDR5-6400 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Max. Amount of Memory | 4 GB | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Shared Memory | no | no | no | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| API | DirectX 12, Shader 6.4, OpenGL 4.6 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Power Consumption | 65 Watt | 10 Watt | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| technology | 7 nm | 5 nm | 5 nm | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Features | DisplayPort 1.4 w/DFSC, HDMI 2.0b, Radeon Media Engine (H.264 4K150 decode, 4K90 encode / H.265 4K90 decode, 4K60 encode / VP9 4K90 decode) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Notebook Size | medium sized | medium sized | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Date of Announcement | 13.11.2019 | 17.01.2023 | 06.06.2022 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Predecessor | M1 8-Core GPU |
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Benchmarks
Cinebench R15 OpenGL 64 Bit + Apple M2 Pro 16-Core GPU
GFXBench T-Rex HD Offscreen C24Z16 + Apple M2 Pro 16-Core GPU
Average Benchmarks Apple M2 Pro 16-Core GPU → 0% n=0
Average Benchmarks Apple M2 8-Core GPU → 0% n=0
- Average benchmark values for this graphics card* Smaller numbers mean a higher performance
1 This benchmark is not used for the average calculation
Game Benchmarks
The following benchmarks stem from our benchmarks of review laptops. The performance depends on the used graphics memory, clock rate, processor, system settings, drivers, and operating systems. So the results don't have to be representative for all laptops with this GPU. For detailed information on the benchmark results, click on the fps number.
Borderlands 3
2019
The Witcher 3
2015
GTA V
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| low | med. | high | ultra | QHD | 4K | low | med. | high | ultra | QHD | 4K | low | med. | high | ultra | QHD | 4K | ||||
| Borderlands 3 | 80.8 | 52 | 38 | 28.9 | 43 | 29.7 | 16.6 | 13.4 | |||||||||||||
| Total War: Three Kingdoms | 258 | 75 | 48 | 36 | 22 | 77 | 39 | 18 | 14 | ||||||||||||
| Shadow of the Tomb Raider | 159 | 72 | 65 | 57 | 36 | 62 | 28 | 24 | 20 | ||||||||||||
| The Witcher 3 | 51 | 45 | |||||||||||||||||||
| GTA V | 76 | 73 | 46 | ||||||||||||||||||
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| low | med. | high | ultra | QHD | 4K | low | med. | high | ultra | QHD | 4K | low | med. | high | ultra | QHD | 4K | < 30 fps < 60 fps < 120 fps ≥ 120 fps | | | | | | | < 30 fps < 60 fps < 120 fps ≥ 120 fps | 2 2 | 1 3 | 4 1 | 1 3 | 1 1 | | < 30 fps < 60 fps < 120 fps ≥ 120 fps | 1 2 | 2 1 | 3 | 3 | | |
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