AMD Radeon HD 6490M Mac Edition vs AMD FirePro M5100

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AMD Radeon HD 6490M Mac Edition

AMD FirePro M5100

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 256MB VRAM Radeon HD 6490M Mac Edition and 2GB VRAM FirePro M5100 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD FirePro M5100 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock775MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 256GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (72.00GB/s vs 25.41GB/s)

480 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6490M Mac Edition

0.24 TFLOPS

FirePro M5100 +313%

0.992 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6490M Mac Edition

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FirePro M5100

Graphics Card

May 2011

Release Date

Oct 2013

Vancouver

Generation

FirePro Mobile

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

MXM-A (3.0)

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

725 MHz

-

Boost Clock

775 MHz

794 MHz

Memory Clock

1125 MHz

Memory

256MB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

64bit

Memory Bus

128bit

25.41GB/s

Bandwidth

72.00GB/s

Render Config

2

Compute Units

10

-

160

Shading Units

640

8

TMUs

40

4

ROPs

16

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

128 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

3.000 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

12.40 GPixel/s

6.000 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

31.00 GTexel/s

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240.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

992.0 GFLOPS

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FP64 (double)

62.00 GFLOPS

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

Unknown

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

-

Graphics Processor

Seymour

GPU Name

Venus

Seymour XTX M2 (216-0809000)

GPU Variant

Venus XT (216-0846000)

TeraScale 2

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.37 billion

Transistors

1.5 billion

67 mm²

Die Size

123 mm²

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.4

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

2.1 (1.2)

N/A

Vulkan

1.2.170

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5.0

Shader Model

6.5 (5.1)

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