NVIDIA GeForce 9650M GS vs AMD Radeon HD 6490M Mac Edition

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NVIDIA GeForce 9650M GS

AMD Radeon HD 6490M Mac Edition

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 9650M GS 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 9650M GS 's Advantages

More VRAM (512GB vs 256GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (25.60GB/s vs 25.41GB/s)

AMD Radeon HD 6490M Mac Edition 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 2 months late

128 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 9650M GS

0.08 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6490M Mac Edition +200%

0.24 TFLOPS

GeForce 9650M GS

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Radeon HD 6490M Mac Edition

Graphics Card

Mar 2008

Release Date

May 2011

GeForce 9M

Generation

Vancouver

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

800 MHz

Memory Clock

794 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

256MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

64bit

25.60GB/s

Bandwidth

25.41GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

2

4

SM Count

-

32

Shading Units

160

16

TMUs

8

ROPs

4

-

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

32 KB

L2 Cache

128 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

5.000 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

3.000 GPixel/s

10.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

6.000 GTexel/s

-

80.00 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

240.0 GFLOPS

-

Board Design

29W

TDP

Unknown

-

No outputs

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Processor

G84

GPU Name

Seymour

NB9P-GS1-A2

GPU Variant

Seymour XTX M2 (216-0809000)

Tesla

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

80 nm

Process Size

40 nm

0.289 billion

Transistors

0.37 billion

169 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

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