AMD Radeon 880M vs Apple M3 Pro GPU (18-core)

We compared two integrated laptop graphics cards: the Radeon 880M with 12 pipelines and 768 shaders against the 7 months older Apple M3 Pro GPU (18-core) that utilizes 288 pipelines and 2304 shaders. Here you will find complete details about specs, efficiency, performance tests, and more.

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
DeviceFacts Final Score
Overall video card score

Key differences

Key distinctions and advantages of M3 Pro GPU (18-core) over Radeon 880M
Reasons to consider the Apple M3 Pro GPU (18-core)
  • Performs significantly better (up to 2x) in 3DMark Steel Nomad Lite
  • 42% higher maximum theoretical performance (6.4 vs 4.5 TFLOPS)
  • Manufactured using a more efficient 3 nm process technology
  • Has 3x more shading units (2304 vs 768)

Gaming Performance

Frame rate comparison across popular AAA titles at different resolutions

Games

FPS Table
Forza Horizon 5
55
29
24
13
-
The Witcher 3
31
26
16
-
-
Counter-Strike 2
49
30
23
10
-
Far Cry 6
41
37
24
12
-
Hogwarts Legacy
22
17
13
-
-
CoD: Modern Warfare III
38
33
21
13
-
Ghost of Tsushima
20
15
12
-
-
Cyberpunk 2077
22
21
11
-
-
Shadow of the Tomb Raider
40
31
21
9
-
Average FPS by Resolution
1080p High 35 -
1080p Ultra 27 -
1440p Ultra 18 -
4K Ultra 9 -
Margin of Error Low Medium

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 3098 -
Solar Bay 14223 22637
Port Royal 1413 -
Fire Strike 8565 -
Wild Life Extreme 6299 14021
Night Raid 37836 -
Sources: 3DMark [1], [2]

GeekBench 6 OpenCL

GPU test for computational tasks (image processing, photography, computer vision, and ML)
GB6 Compute Score
Background Blur 72 img/sec 82.1 img/sec
Face Detection 35.7 img/sec 53.6 img/sec
Horizon Detection 1.04 Gpixels/sec 1.82 Gpixels/sec
Edge Detection 1.33 Gpixels/sec 2.59 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 1.17 Gpixels/sec 1.84 Gpixels/sec
Feature Matching 0.44 Gpixels/sec 0.48 Gpixels/sec
Stereo Matching 115.5 Gpixels/sec 148.6 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 4880.8 FPS 4893.9 FPS
API OpenCL OpenCL
Sources: Geekbench [3], [4]

Cinebench 2024 GPU

Hardware benchmark using Maxon's Cinema 4D rendering engine
Cinebench 2024 GPU

Passmark Graphics

Videocard test that focuses on compute shaders, multi-texturing, tessellation, and other features
G3D Mark Score
G2D Mark 969 -
DirectX 11 73 FPS -
DirectX 12 32 FPS -
GPU Compute 3714 Ops/s -
Sources: PassMark [5] – 737 samples

Blender

Rendering performance test for 3D modeling
Blender GPU
274.57
1692.54
Sources: Blender [9], [10] – 20 & 240 samples

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
GB6 ML Half Precision
GB6 ML Quantized
Image Classification (SP) 3202 5578
Image Segmentation (HP) 5252 9924
Image Super Resolution (Q) 9782 13323
Face Detection (HP) 11315 19900
Pose Estimation (Q) 30704 35730
Text Classification (SP) 2351 2904
Machine Translation (HP) 4339 4985
Object Detection (SP) 2843 5496
Depth Estimation (Q) 14243 23344
Style Transfer (SP) 69169 78342
Framework ONNX Core ML
Backend DirectML GPU
Sources: Geekbench [9], [10]
Results were compared using different ML frameworks

Specifications

Technical specifications of Radeon 880M and Apple M3 Pro GPU (18-core)

General

Vendor Amd Apple
Build Integrated Integrated
Released June 3, 2024 October 31, 2023
Case Laptop Laptop
Purpose Generic Professional
Segment Mid-range Mid-range
Architecture RDNA 3.5 Apple M GPU
GPU Codename Strix Point Custom
Rival Equivalent - Intel Arc 130V - GeForce RTX 4060 Laptop
Successor - Radeon 8050S - Apple M5 Pro GPU (20-core)
Recommended CPU - AMD Ryzen AI 9 365 or above - Apple M3 Pro or above
Used in CPUs - AMD Ryzen AI 9 465
- AMD Ryzen AI 7 Pro 360
- AMD Ryzen AI 9 365
- Apple M3 Pro
Laptop GPU ranking (88th and 61st place)

Graphics Processing Unit

Base Clock 400 MHz 500 MHz
Boost Clock 2900 MHz 1380 MHz
Shading Units 768 2304
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 48 144
Render Output Units (ROPs) 16 72
Compute Units (Pipelines) 12 288
Tensor Cores No -
Ray-tracing Cores 12 -
L1 Cache 128KB per cluster -
L2 Cache 2MB shared -
Instructions Per Cycle 2 IPC 2 IPC

Raw Performance

Pixel Fill Rate 46 GPixel/s 99 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 139 GTexel/s 199 GTexel/s
FLOPS (FP32)
4.5 TFLOPS
6.4 TFLOPS

Physical

Interface PCIe 4.0 x8 Custom
TGP 15 W 30 W
Manufacturing TSMC TSMC
Fabrication Process 4 nm 3 nm
Die Size 233 mm² -
Transistor Count 34 billion 25.2 billion
Transistor Density 145.92 MTr/mm² -
Max. Temperature 100°C 100°C

Memory

Memory Type System Shared System Shared
Memory Clock - 6400 MHz
Effective Memory Speed - 12800 Mbps
Bus - 192-bit
ECC No No
Memory Bandwidth

API

DirectX 12 -
Vulkan 1.4 -
OpenGL 4.6 -
OpenCL 2.1 -
CUDA No -
Ray Tracing Yes Yes
DLSS No No
DisplayPort 2.1 -

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