AMD Radeon HD 6490M Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce 9300M GS

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AMD Radeon HD 6490M Mac Edition

NVIDIA GeForce 9300M GS

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 256MB VRAM Radeon HD 6490M Mac Edition and 256MB VRAM GeForce 9300M GS 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

Released 2 years and 11 months late

Larger VRAM bandwidth (25.41GB/s vs 11.20GB/s)

152 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6490M Mac Edition +990%

0.24 TFLOPS

GeForce 9300M GS

0.022 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6490M Mac Edition

VS

GeForce 9300M GS

Graphics Card

May 2011

Release Date

Jun 2008

Vancouver

Generation

GeForce 9M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

MXM-I

Clock Speeds

-

794 MHz

Memory Clock

700 MHz

Memory

256MB

Memory Size

256MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

64bit

Memory Bus

64bit

25.41GB/s

Bandwidth

11.20GB/s

Render Config

2

Compute Units

-

SM Count

1

160

Shading Units

8

TMUs

4

ROPs

4

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

128 KB

L2 Cache

16 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

3.000 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.200 GPixel/s

6.000 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

2.200 GTexel/s

-

240.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

22.40 GFLOPS

-

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

13W

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

No outputs

-

Graphics Processor

Seymour

GPU Name

G98

Seymour XTX M2 (216-0809000)

GPU Variant

NB9M-GS

TeraScale 2

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

65 nm

0.37 billion

Transistors

0.21 billion

67 mm²

Die Size

86 mm²

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.4

OpenGL

3.3

1.2

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

1.1

5.0

Shader Model

4.0

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