NVIDIA GeForce 9800M GTS vs AMD Radeon HD 6490M Mac Edition

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NVIDIA GeForce 9800M GTS

AMD Radeon HD 6490M Mac Edition

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce 9800M GTS 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 9800M GTS 's Advantages

More VRAM (1024GB vs 256GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (51.20GB/s vs 25.41GB/s)

AMD Radeon HD 6490M Mac Edition 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 9 months late

96 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 9800M GTS

0.192 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6490M Mac Edition +25%

0.24 TFLOPS

GeForce 9800M GTS

VS

Radeon HD 6490M Mac Edition

Graphics Card

Aug 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

1024MB

Memory Size

256MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

64bit

51.20GB/s

Bandwidth

25.41GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

2

8

SM Count

-

64

Shading Units

160

32

TMUs

8

16

ROPs

4

-

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

64 KB

L2 Cache

128 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

9.600 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

3.000 GPixel/s

19.20 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

6.000 GTexel/s

-

192.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

240.0 GFLOPS

-

Board Design

75W

TDP

Unknown

-

No outputs

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

-

Graphics Processor

G94

GPU Name

Seymour

NB9E-GT1

GPU Variant

Seymour XTX M2 (216-0809000)

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

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