AMD Radeon HD 6490M Mac Edition vs AMD Radeon HD 6850M

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AMD Radeon HD 6490M Mac Edition

AMD Radeon HD 6850M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 256MB VRAM Radeon HD 6490M Mac Edition and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6850M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 6850M 's Advantages

More VRAM (1024GB vs 256GB)

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

640 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6490M Mac Edition

0.24 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6850M +350%

1.08 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6490M Mac Edition

VS

Radeon HD 6850M

Graphics Card

May 2011

Release Date

Jan 2011

Vancouver

Generation

Vancouver

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

794 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

256MB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

64bit

Memory Bus

128bit

25.41GB/s

Bandwidth

25.60GB/s

Render Config

2

Compute Units

10

-

160

Shading Units

800

8

TMUs

40

4

ROPs

16

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

128 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

3.000 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

10.80 GPixel/s

6.000 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

27.00 GTexel/s

-

240.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1080 GFLOPS

-

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

50W

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

No outputs

-

Graphics Processor

Seymour

GPU Name

Granville

Seymour XTX M2 (216-0809000)

GPU Variant

Granville PRO

TeraScale 2

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

40 nm

0.37 billion

Transistors

1.04 billion

67 mm²

Die Size

166 mm²

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.4

OpenGL

4.4

1.2

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

5.0

Shader Model

5.0

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