AMD Radeon 520 Mobile vs AMD Radeon HD 6490M Mac Edition

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AMD Radeon 520 Mobile

AMD Radeon HD 6490M Mac Edition

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon 520 Mobile 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

AMD Radeon 520 Mobile 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 11 months late

More VRAM (2GB vs 256GB)

160 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon HD 6490M Mac Edition 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (25.41GB/s vs 16.00GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon 520 Mobile +174%

0.659 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6490M Mac Edition

0.24 TFLOPS

Radeon 520 Mobile

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Radeon HD 6490M Mac Edition

Graphics Card

Apr 2017

Release Date

May 2011

Mobility Radeon

Generation

Vancouver

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

794 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

256MB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

64bit

Memory Bus

64bit

16.00GB/s

Bandwidth

25.41GB/s

Render Config

5

Compute Units

2

-

320

Shading Units

160

20

TMUs

8

ROPs

4

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

128 KB

L2 Cache

128 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

8.240 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

3.000 GPixel/s

20.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

6.000 GTexel/s

-

659.2 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

240.0 GFLOPS

41.20 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

50W

TDP

Unknown

-

No outputs

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Processor

Banks

GPU Name

Seymour

Banks PRO (216-0568010)

GPU Variant

Seymour XTX M2 (216-0809000)

GCN 1.0

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

0.69 billion

Transistors

0.37 billion

56 mm²

Die Size

67 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.4

1.2

OpenCL

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

5.1

Shader Model

5.0

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