AMD Radeon HD 6490M vs NVIDIA GeForce 9500M GS

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AMD Radeon HD 6490M

NVIDIA GeForce 9500M GS

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 6490M and 512MB VRAM GeForce 9500M GS to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 6490M 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 11 months late

Larger VRAM bandwidth (25.60GB/s vs 22.40GB/s)

128 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6490M +319%

0.256 TFLOPS

GeForce 9500M GS

0.061 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6490M

VS

GeForce 9500M GS

Graphics Card

Jan 2011

Release Date

Feb 2008

Vancouver

Generation

GeForce 9M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

800 MHz

Memory Clock

700 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

64bit

Memory Bus

128bit

25.60GB/s

Bandwidth

22.40GB/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

3.200 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

3.800 GPixel/s

6.400 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

7.600 GTexel/s

-

256.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

60.80 GFLOPS

-

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

20W

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

No outputs

-

Graphics Processor

Seymour

GPU Name

G84

Seymour XTX S3 (216-0809024)

GPU Variant

NB9P-GE1-A2

TeraScale 2

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

80 nm

0.37 billion

Transistors

0.289 billion

67 mm²

Die Size

169 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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