NVIDIA GeForce GTX 965M vs AMD Radeon HD 6490M

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 965M

AMD Radeon HD 6490M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 965M and 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 6490M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 965M 's Advantages

Released 5 years late

Boost Clock1150MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (80.19GB/s vs 25.60GB/s)

864 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 965M +819%

2.355 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6490M

0.256 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 965M

VS

Radeon HD 6490M

Graphics Card

Jan 2016

Release Date

Jan 2011

GeForce 900M

Generation

Vancouver

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-A (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

935 MHz

Base Clock

-

1150 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1253 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

64bit

80.19GB/s

Bandwidth

25.60GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

2

-

1024

Shading Units

160

64

TMUs

8

32

ROPs

4

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

128 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

36.80 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

3.200 GPixel/s

73.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

6.400 GTexel/s

-

2.355 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

256.0 GFLOPS

73.60 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

Unknown

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Processor

GM206S

GPU Name

Seymour

N16E-GR-A1

GPU Variant

Seymour XTX S3 (216-0809024)

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

2.94 billion

Transistors

0.37 billion

228 mm²

Die Size

67 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.4

3.0

OpenCL

1.2

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

5.2

CUDA

-

6.7

Shader Model

5.0

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