AMD Radeon E8950 vs AMD Radeon HD 6490M

VS

AMD Radeon E8950

AMD Radeon HD 6490M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon E8950 and 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 6490M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon E8950 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 8 months late

Boost Clock1000MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.0GB/s vs 25.60GB/s)

1888 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon E8950 +1500%

4.096 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6490M

0.256 TFLOPS

Radeon E8950

VS

Radeon HD 6490M

Graphics Card

Sep 2015

Release Date

Jan 2011

Embedded

Generation

Vancouver

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

735 MHz

Base Clock

-

1000 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

64bit

192.0GB/s

Bandwidth

25.60GB/s

Render Config

32

Compute Units

2

-

2048

Shading Units

160

128

TMUs

8

32

ROPs

4

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

128 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

32.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

3.200 GPixel/s

128.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

6.400 GTexel/s

4.096 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

4.096 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

256.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

95W

TDP

Unknown

-

No outputs

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Processor

Amethyst

GPU Name

Seymour

E8950

GPU Variant

Seymour XTX S3 (216-0809024)

GCN 3.0

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

5 billion

Transistors

0.37 billion

366 mm²

Die Size

67 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.4

2.0

OpenCL

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

6.3

Shader Model

5.0

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