NVIDIA GeForce 720M vs AMD Radeon HD 6490M Mac Edition

VS

NVIDIA GeForce 720M

AMD Radeon HD 6490M Mac Edition

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce 720M 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

NVIDIA GeForce 720M 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 11 months late

More VRAM (2GB vs 256GB)

AMD Radeon HD 6490M Mac Edition 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (25.41GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)

64 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 720M

0.24 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6490M Mac Edition

0.24 TFLOPS

GeForce 720M

VS

Radeon HD 6490M Mac Edition

Graphics Card

Apr 2013

Release Date

May 2011

GeForce 700M

Generation

Vancouver

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

800 MHz

Memory Clock

794 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

256MB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

64bit

Memory Bus

64bit

12.80GB/s

Bandwidth

25.41GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

2

SM Count

-

96

Shading Units

160

16

TMUs

8

ROPs

4

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

128 KB

L2 Cache

128 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

2.500 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

3.000 GPixel/s

10.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

6.000 GTexel/s

-

240.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

240.0 GFLOPS

20.00 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

33W

TDP

Unknown

-

No outputs

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

-

Graphics Processor

GF117

GPU Name

Seymour

N14M-GE

GPU Variant

Seymour XTX M2 (216-0809000)

Fermi 2.0

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

0.585 billion

Transistors

0.37 billion

116 mm²

Die Size

67 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.4

1.1

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

2.1

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

5.0

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