AMD Radeon HD 6490M Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce 9800S

VS

AMD Radeon HD 6490M Mac Edition

NVIDIA GeForce 9800S

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 256MB VRAM Radeon HD 6490M Mac Edition and 512MB VRAM GeForce 9800S 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

96 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 9800S 's Advantages

More VRAM (512GB vs 256GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (51.14GB/s vs 25.41GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6490M Mac Edition +25%

0.24 TFLOPS

GeForce 9800S

0.192 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6490M Mac Edition

VS

GeForce 9800S

Graphics Card

May 2011

Release Date

Jul 2008

Vancouver

Generation

GeForce 9M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

794 MHz

Memory Clock

799 MHz

Memory

256MB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

64bit

Memory Bus

256bit

25.41GB/s

Bandwidth

51.14GB/s

Render Config

2

Compute Units

-

SM Count

8

160

Shading Units

64

8

TMUs

32

4

ROPs

16

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

128 KB

L2 Cache

64 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

3.000 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

9.600 GPixel/s

6.000 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

19.20 GTexel/s

-

240.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

192.0 GFLOPS

-

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

75W

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

No outputs

-

Graphics Processor

Seymour

GPU Name

G94

Seymour XTX M2 (216-0809000)

GPU Variant

9800S

TeraScale 2

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

65 nm

0.37 billion

Transistors

0.505 billion

67 mm²

Die Size

240 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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