AMD Radeon HD 6490M Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce 720A

VS

AMD Radeon HD 6490M Mac Edition

NVIDIA GeForce 720A

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 256MB VRAM Radeon HD 6490M Mac Edition and 1024MB VRAM GeForce 720A to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 6490M Mac Edition 's Advantages

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

64 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 720A 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock938MHz

More VRAM (1024GB vs 256GB)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6490M Mac Edition +33%

0.24 TFLOPS

GeForce 720A

0.18 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6490M Mac Edition

VS

GeForce 720A

Graphics Card

May 2011

Release Date

Jul 2014

Vancouver

Generation

GeForce 700A

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

775 MHz

-

Boost Clock

938 MHz

794 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

256MB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR3

64bit

Memory Bus

64bit

25.41GB/s

Bandwidth

16.00GB/s

Render Config

2

Compute Units

-

SM Count

2

160

Shading Units

96

8

TMUs

16

4

ROPs

8

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

128 KB

L2 Cache

128 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

3.000 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

3.752 GPixel/s

6.000 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

15.01 GTexel/s

-

240.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

180.1 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

15.01 GFLOPS

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

33W

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

No outputs

-

Graphics Processor

Seymour

GPU Name

GF117

Seymour XTX M2 (216-0809000)

GPU Variant

N14M-GE

TeraScale 2

Architecture

Fermi 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.37 billion

Transistors

0.585 billion

67 mm²

Die Size

116 mm²

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.4

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

2.1

5.0

Shader Model

5.1

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