GeForce 9700M GTS vs Radeon HD 6490M
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 9700M GTS and 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 6490M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce 9700M GTS 's Advantages
Larger VRAM bandwidth (51.20GB/s vs 25.60GB/s)
Radeon HD 6490M 's Advantages
Released 2 years and 6 months late
112 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce 9700M GTS
127
Radeon HD 6490M
+101%
256
Graphics Card
Jul 2008
Release Date
Jan 2011
GeForce 9M
Generation
Vancouver
Mobile
Type
Mobile
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
800 MHz
Memory Clock
800 MHz
Memory
512MB
Memory Size
512MB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
64bit
51.20GB/s
Bandwidth
25.60GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
2
6
SM Count
-
48
Shading Units
160
24
TMUs
8
16
ROPs
4
-
L1 Cache
8 KB (per CU)
64 KB
L2 Cache
128 KB
Theoretical Performance
8.480 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
3.200 GPixel/s
12.72 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
6.400 GTexel/s
127.2 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
256.0 GFLOPS
Board Design
60W
TDP
Unknown
No outputs
Outputs
Portable Device Dependent
Graphics Processor
G94
GPU Name
Seymour
NB9E-GS
GPU Variant
Seymour XTX S3
(216-0809024)
Tesla
Architecture
TeraScale 2
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
65 nm
Process Size
40 nm
0.505 billion
Transistors
0.37 billion
240 mm²
Die Size
67 mm²
Graphics Features
11.1 (10_0)
DirectX
11.2 (11_0)
3.3
OpenGL
4.4
1.1
OpenCL
1.2
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
1.1
CUDA
-
4.0
Shader Model
5.0