Qualcomm Adreno 510 vs Apple M2 Max 30-Core GPU vs Apple M2 8-Core GPU
Qualcomm Adreno 510
► remove from comparisonThe Qualcomm Adreno 510 is a mobile graphics card for mid-range smartphones and tablets (mostly Android based). It is included in the Qualcomm Snapdragon 650 and 652 SoCs and based on the Adreno 500 architecture (like the Adreno 520 in the S820, which should be fully compatible in software).
The GPU supports modern standards like Vulkan 1.0 (according to Wikipedia), OpenGL ES 3.1 + AE (3.2 in other sources), OpenCL 2.0 and DirectX 12 (FL 12.1 according to Wikipedia, 11.1 according to Qualcomm). Furthermore, the GPU supports Universal Bandwidth Compression (UBWC) to save memory bandwidth.
Compared the the faster Adreno 530, the 510 is currently produced in the older 28nm process (650 and 652) and should offer less ALUs. The clock speed is not disclosed.
Early benchmarks and performance ratings from Qualcomm position the GPU on a level with the old Adreno 330 (former high end GPU) in the Snapdragon 810. Therefore, it should be able to handle most Android games up to Full HD fluently.
Apple M2 Max 30-Core GPU
► remove from comparisonThe Apple M2 Max 30-Core-GPU is an integrated graphics card by Apple offering 30 of the 38 cores in the M2 Max Chip.
The graphics card has no dedicated graphics memory but can use the fast LPDDR5-6400 unified memory with a 512 bit bus (up to 400 GBit/s).
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 and 16 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
► remove from comparisonThe 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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Architecture | Adreno 500 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Shared Memory | yes | no | no | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
API | DirectX 12.1, OpenGL ES 3.2, Vulkan | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
technology | 14 nm | 5 nm | 5 nm | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Features | OpenGL ES 3.2, OpenCL 2.0, Direct3D 12 (FL 12_1) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Date of Announcement | 15.12.2015 | 17.01.2023 | 06.06.2022 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pipelines | 30 - unified | 8 - unified | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Memory Type | LPDDR5-6400 | LPDDR5-6400 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Notebook Size | medium sized | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Core Speed | 1398 (Boost) MHz | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Power Consumption | 10 Watt | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Predecessor | M1 8-Core GPU |
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