AMD Radeon HD 6490M vs AMD Radeon RX 580X Mobile

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AMD Radeon HD 6490M AMD Radeon RX 580X Mobile

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 6490M and 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 580X Mobile to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 580X Mobile 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock1077MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.0GB/s vs 25.60GB/s)

2144 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6490M

0.256 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 580X Mobile +1838%

4.963 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6490M

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Radeon RX 580X Mobile

Graphics Card

Jan 2011

Release Date

Apr 2018

Vancouver

Generation

Mobility Radeon

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1000 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1077 MHz

800 MHz

Memory Clock

2000 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

64bit

Memory Bus

256bit

25.60GB/s

Bandwidth

256.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

2

Compute Units

36

160

Shading Units

2304

8

TMUs

144

4

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

128 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

3.200 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

34.46 GPixel/s

6.400 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

155.1 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

4.963 TFLOPS

256.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.963 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

310.2 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Seymour

GPU Name

Polaris 20

Seymour XTX S3 (216-0809024)

GPU Variant

Polaris 20M XT

TeraScale 2

Architecture

GCN 4.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

40 nm

Process Size

14 nm

0.37 billion

Transistors

5.7 billion

67 mm²

Die Size

232 mm²

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

100W

-

Suggested PSU

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.4

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

2.1

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

-

CUDA

-

5.0

Shader Model

6.4

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