AMD Radeon HD 6490M Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M

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AMD Radeon HD 6490M Mac Edition

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 256MB VRAM Radeon HD 6490M Mac Edition and 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 960M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock1176MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 256GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (80.19GB/s vs 25.41GB/s)

480 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6490M Mac Edition

0.24 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 960M +527%

1.505 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6490M Mac Edition

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GeForce GTX 960M

Graphics Card

May 2011

Release Date

Mar 2015

Vancouver

Generation

GeForce 900M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1097 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1176 MHz

794 MHz

Memory Clock

1253 MHz

Memory

256MB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

64bit

Memory Bus

128bit

25.41GB/s

Bandwidth

80.19GB/s

Render Config

2

Compute Units

-

160

Shading Units

640

8

TMUs

40

4

ROPs

16

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SMM)

128 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

3.000 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

18.82 GPixel/s

6.000 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

47.04 GTexel/s

-

240.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.505 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

47.04 GFLOPS

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

75W

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

No outputs

-

Graphics Processor

Seymour

GPU Name

GM107

Seymour XTX M2 (216-0809000)

GPU Variant

N16P-GX-A1

TeraScale 2

Architecture

Maxwell

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.37 billion

Transistors

1.87 billion

67 mm²

Die Size

148 mm²

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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