AMD Radeon HD 6490M Mac Edition vs NVIDIA NVS 2100M

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AMD Radeon HD 6490M Mac Edition

NVIDIA NVS 2100M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 256MB VRAM Radeon HD 6490M Mac Edition and 512MB VRAM NVS 2100M 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 1 years and 4 months late

Larger VRAM bandwidth (25.41GB/s vs 12.64GB/s)

144 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA NVS 2100M 's Advantages

More VRAM (512GB vs 256GB)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6490M Mac Edition +515%

0.24 TFLOPS

NVS 2100M

0.039 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6490M Mac Edition

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NVS 2100M

Graphics Card

May 2011

Release Date

Jan 2010

Vancouver

Generation

NVS Mobile

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

794 MHz

Memory Clock

790 MHz

Memory

256MB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

64bit

Memory Bus

64bit

25.41GB/s

Bandwidth

12.64GB/s

Render Config

2

Compute Units

-

SM Count

2

160

Shading Units

16

8

TMUs

8

4

ROPs

4

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

128 KB

L2 Cache

32 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

3.000 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.140 GPixel/s

6.000 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

4.280 GTexel/s

-

240.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

39.36 GFLOPS

-

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

11W

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

No outputs

-

Graphics Processor

Seymour

GPU Name

GT218

Seymour XTX M2 (216-0809000)

GPU Variant

-

TeraScale 2

Architecture

Tesla 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

40 nm

0.37 billion

Transistors

0.26 billion

67 mm²

Die Size

57 mm²

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

11.1 (10_1)

4.4

OpenGL

3.3

1.2

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

1.2

5.0

Shader Model

4.1

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