AMD Radeon HD 6490M Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce 930MX

VS

AMD Radeon HD 6490M Mac Edition

NVIDIA GeForce 930MX

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 256MB VRAM Radeon HD 6490M Mac Edition and 2GB VRAM GeForce 930MX 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 14.40GB/s)

NVIDIA GeForce 930MX 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock1020MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 256GB)

224 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6490M Mac Edition

0.24 TFLOPS

GeForce 930MX +226%

0.783 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6490M Mac Edition

VS

GeForce 930MX

Graphics Card

May 2011

Release Date

Mar 2016

Vancouver

Generation

GeForce 900M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

952 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1020 MHz

794 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

256MB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR3

64bit

Memory Bus

64bit

25.41GB/s

Bandwidth

14.40GB/s

Render Config

2

Compute Units

-

160

Shading Units

384

8

TMUs

24

4

ROPs

8

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SMM)

128 KB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

3.000 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

8.160 GPixel/s

6.000 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

24.48 GTexel/s

-

240.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

783.4 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

24.48 GFLOPS

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

17W

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Seymour

GPU Name

GM108

Seymour XTX M2 (216-0809000)

GPU Variant

N16S-GMR

TeraScale 2

Architecture

Maxwell

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.37 billion

Transistors

Unknown

67 mm²

Die Size

Unknown

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.4

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

3.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

5.0

Shader Model

5.1

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