NVIDIA GeForce MX250 vs AMD Radeon HD 6490M Mac Edition

VS

NVIDIA GeForce MX250

AMD Radeon HD 6490M Mac Edition

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce MX250 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 MX250 's Advantages

Boost Clock1038MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 256GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (48.06GB/s vs 25.41GB/s)

224 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce MX250 +232%

0.797 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6490M Mac Edition

0.24 TFLOPS

GeForce MX250

VS

Radeon HD 6490M Mac Edition

Graphics Card

Unknown

Release Date

May 2011

GeForce MX

Generation

Vancouver

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x4

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

937 MHz

Base Clock

-

1038 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1502 MHz

Memory Clock

794 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

256MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

64bit

Memory Bus

64bit

48.06GB/s

Bandwidth

25.41GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

2

3

SM Count

-

384

Shading Units

160

24

TMUs

8

16

ROPs

4

-

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

128 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

16.61 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

3.000 GPixel/s

24.91 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

6.000 GTexel/s

12.46 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

797.2 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

240.0 GFLOPS

24.91 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

10W

TDP

Unknown

-

No outputs

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Processor

GP108B

GPU Name

Seymour

-

GPU Variant

Seymour XTX M2 (216-0809000)

Pascal

Architecture

TeraScale 2

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

40 nm

1.8 billion

Transistors

0.37 billion

74 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

6.1

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

5.0

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