GeForce 930MX vs Radeon HD 6490M Mac Edition
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce 930MX and 256MB VRAM Radeon HD 6490M Mac Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce 930MX 's Advantages
Released 4 years and 10 months late
Boost Clock1020MHz
More VRAM (2GB vs 256GB)
224 additional rendering cores
Radeon HD 6490M Mac Edition 's Advantages
Larger VRAM bandwidth (25.41GB/s vs 14.40GB/s)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce 930MX
+226%
783
Radeon HD 6490M Mac Edition
240
Graphics Card
Mar 2016
Release Date
May 2011
GeForce 900M
Generation
Vancouver
Mobile
Type
Mobile
PCIe 3.0 x8
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
952 MHz
Base Clock
-
1020 MHz
Boost Clock
-
900 MHz
Memory Clock
794 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
256MB
DDR3
Memory Type
GDDR5
64bit
Memory Bus
64bit
14.40GB/s
Bandwidth
25.41GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
2
384
Shading Units
160
24
TMUs
8
8
ROPs
4
64 KB (per SMM)
L1 Cache
8 KB (per CU)
1024 KB
L2 Cache
128 KB
Theoretical Performance
8.160 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
3.000 GPixel/s
24.48 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
6.000 GTexel/s
783.4 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
240.0 GFLOPS
24.48 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
17W
TDP
Unknown
No outputs
Outputs
Portable Device Dependent
None
Power Connectors
-
Graphics Processor
GM108
GPU Name
Seymour
N16S-GMR
GPU Variant
Seymour XTX M2
(216-0809000)
Maxwell
Architecture
TeraScale 2
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
40 nm
Unknown
Transistors
0.37 billion
Unknown
Die Size
67 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (11_0)
DirectX
11.2 (11_0)
4.6
OpenGL
4.4
3.0
OpenCL
1.2
1.3
Vulkan
N/A
5.0
CUDA
-
5.1
Shader Model
5.0