AMD Radeon HD 6490M Mac Edition vs AMD FirePro M5950

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AMD Radeon HD 6490M Mac Edition

AMD FirePro M5950

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 256MB VRAM Radeon HD 6490M Mac Edition and 1024MB VRAM FirePro M5950 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD FirePro M5950 's Advantages

More VRAM (1024GB vs 256GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (57.60GB/s vs 25.41GB/s)

320 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6490M Mac Edition

0.24 TFLOPS

FirePro M5950 +190%

0.696 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6490M Mac Edition

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FirePro M5950

Graphics Card

May 2011

Release Date

Jan 2011

Vancouver

Generation

FirePro Mobile

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

MXM-A (3.0)

Clock Speeds

-

794 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

256MB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

64bit

Memory Bus

128bit

25.41GB/s

Bandwidth

57.60GB/s

Render Config

2

Compute Units

6

-

160

Shading Units

480

8

TMUs

24

4

ROPs

8

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

128 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

3.000 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

5.800 GPixel/s

6.000 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

17.40 GTexel/s

-

240.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

696.0 GFLOPS

-

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

35W

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

No outputs

-

Graphics Processor

Seymour

GPU Name

Whistler

Seymour XTX M2 (216-0809000)

GPU Variant

Whistler XT GL

TeraScale 2

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

40 nm

0.37 billion

Transistors

0.716 billion

67 mm²

Die Size

104 mm²

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.4

OpenGL

4.4

1.2

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

5.0

Shader Model

5.0

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