NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M vs AMD Radeon HD 6490M Mac Edition

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M

AMD Radeon HD 6490M Mac Edition

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 960M 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 GTX 960M 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock1176MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 256GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (80.19GB/s vs 25.41GB/s)

480 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 960M +527%

1.505 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6490M Mac Edition

0.24 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 960M

VS

Radeon HD 6490M Mac Edition

Graphics Card

Mar 2015

Release Date

May 2011

GeForce 900M

Generation

Vancouver

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1097 MHz

Base Clock

-

1176 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1253 MHz

Memory Clock

794 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

256MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

64bit

80.19GB/s

Bandwidth

25.41GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

2

-

640

Shading Units

160

40

TMUs

8

16

ROPs

4

-

64 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

128 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

18.82 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

3.000 GPixel/s

47.04 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

6.000 GTexel/s

-

1.505 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

240.0 GFLOPS

47.04 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

75W

TDP

Unknown

-

No outputs

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

-

Graphics Processor

GM107

GPU Name

Seymour

N16P-GX-A1

GPU Variant

Seymour XTX M2 (216-0809000)

Maxwell

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

1.87 billion

Transistors

0.37 billion

148 mm²

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

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