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AMD Radeon RX 6650M XT vs Apple M3 Max 30-Core GPU

AMD Radeon RX 6650M XT

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The AMD Radeon RX 6650M XT is a mobile mid-range graphics card based on the Navi 23 chip (RDNA 2  architecture) manufactured in 7nm. It features 2,048 cores (32 CUs - compute units) and 8 GB of fast GDDR6 graphics memory connected with a 128 Bit memory bus. The chip also includes 32 MB Infinity Cache. The clock speed of the cores will depend on the laptop according to AMD. The specified game clock speed is 2162 MHz (most likely at 120 W TGP). 

AMD compares the performance to the RTX 3060 for laptops and similar to the RX 6600M. When Raytracing effects are activated, it falls behind the GeForce GPUs. Compared to the normal RX 6650M, the XT variant offers more shader, but at a slower clock speed.

The Navi 21 chip is manufactured at TSMC in the modern 7nm process.

Apple M3 Max 30-Core GPU

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The Apple M3 Max 30-Core GPU is a self-designed graphics card in the Apple M3 SoC and offers 30 of the 40 cores that are included in the chip. According to Apple, the GPU uses a new architecture and now offers dynamic caching, mesh shading and ray tracing acceleration.

The graphics card can access up to 96 GB LPDDR5-6400 unified memory via a 512 bit memory bus (max 400 GBit/s). Thanks to dynamic caching, the GPU only reserves as much memory as is required.

Since the SoC is manufactured in the current 3nm (probably N3B) at TSMC.

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AMD Radeon RX 6650M XTApple M3 Max 30-Core GPU
Apple M3 Series
Radeon RX 6850M XT compare 2560 @ 2.46 GHz192 Bit @ 18000 MHz
Radeon RX 6800M compare 2560 @ 2.12 - 2.3 GHz192 Bit @ 16000 MHz
Radeon RX 6800S compare 2048 @ 1.8 - 1.98 GHz128 Bit @ 16000 MHz
Radeon RX 6700M compare 2304 @ 2.3 GHz160 Bit @ 16000 MHz
Radeon RX 6650M XT 2048 @ 2.16 GHz128 Bit @ 18000 MHz
Radeon RX 6650M compare 1792 @ 2.22 GHz128 Bit @ 18000 MHz
Radeon RX 6600M compare 1792 @ 2.07 - 2.18 GHz128 Bit @ 14000 MHz
Radeon RX 6700S compare 1792 @ 1.7 - 1.89 GHz128 Bit @ 14000 MHz
Radeon PRO W6600M compare 1792 128 Bit @ 14000 MHz
Radeon RX 6600S compare 1792 @ 1.88 GHz128 Bit @ 16000 MHz
Radeon RX 6550M compare 1024 @ 2 - 2.56 GHz64 Bit @ 18000 MHz
Radeon RX 6500M compare 1024 @ 2.19 GHz64 Bit @ 18000 MHz
Radeon RX 6550S compare 1024 @ 2.17 GHz64 Bit @ 16000 MHz
Radeon RX 6450M compare 768 @ 2 - 2.22 GHz64 Bit @ 18000 MHz
Radeon RX 6300M compare 768 @ 1.51 GHz128 Bit @ 18000 MHz
M3 Max 40-Core GPU compare 40
M3 Max 30-Core GPU 30
M3 Pro 18-Core GPU compare 18
M3 Pro 14-Core GPU compare 14
M3 10-Core GPU compare 10
M3 8-Core GPU compare 8
ArchitectureRDNA 2
Pipelines2048 - unified30 - unified
Core Speed2162 (Boost) MHz
Memory Speed18000 MHz
Memory Bus Width128 Bit
Memory TypeGDDR6LPDDR5-6400
Max. Amount of Memory8 GB
Shared Memorynono
APIDirectX 12, Shader 6.4, OpenGL 4.6
Power Consumption120 Watt53 Watt
Transistors11.1 Billion
technology7 nm5 nm
FeaturesDisplayPort 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 Sizelargemedium sized
Date of Announcement04.01.2022 31.10.2023
Link to Manufacturer Pagewww.amd.com
CPU in M3 Max 30-Core GPUGPU Base SpeedGPU Boost / Turbo
Apple M3 Max 14-Core14 x 2748 MHz, 78 W? MHz? MHz

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Redaktion, 2017-09- 8 (Update: 2023-07- 1)