AMD Radeon HD 6490M Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce 9700M GT

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AMD Radeon HD 6490M Mac Edition

NVIDIA GeForce 9700M GT

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 256MB VRAM Radeon HD 6490M Mac Edition and 512MB VRAM GeForce 9700M GT 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 10 months late

128 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 9700M GT 's Advantages

More VRAM (512GB vs 256GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (25.60GB/s vs 25.41GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6490M Mac Edition +142%

0.24 TFLOPS

GeForce 9700M GT

0.099 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6490M Mac Edition

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GeForce 9700M GT

Graphics Card

May 2011

Release Date

Jul 2008

Vancouver

Generation

GeForce 9M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

MXM-II

Clock Speeds

-

794 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

256MB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

64bit

Memory Bus

128bit

25.41GB/s

Bandwidth

25.60GB/s

Render Config

2

Compute Units

-

SM Count

4

160

Shading Units

32

8

TMUs

16

4

ROPs

8

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

128 KB

L2 Cache

32 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

3.000 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

5.000 GPixel/s

6.000 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

10.00 GTexel/s

-

240.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

99.20 GFLOPS

-

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

45W

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

No outputs

-

Graphics Processor

Seymour

GPU Name

G96

Seymour XTX M2 (216-0809000)

GPU Variant

NB9E-GE

TeraScale 2

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

UMC

40 nm

Process Size

65 nm

0.37 billion

Transistors

0.314 billion

67 mm²

Die Size

144 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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