AMD Radeon HD 8730A vs AMD Radeon HD 6490M Mac Edition

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AMD Radeon HD 8730A AMD Radeon HD 6490M Mac Edition

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 8730A and 256MB VRAM Radeon HD 6490M Mac Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 8730A 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 11 months late

Boost Clock700MHz

More VRAM (1024GB vs 256GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (32.00GB/s vs 25.41GB/s)

224 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 8730A +123%

0.537 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6490M Mac Edition

0.24 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8730A

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Radeon HD 6490M Mac Edition

Graphics Card

Apr 2013

Release Date

May 2011

All-In-One

Generation

Vancouver

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

650 MHz

Base Clock

-

700 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

794 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

256MB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

64bit

32.00GB/s

Bandwidth

25.41GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

6

Compute Units

2

384

Shading Units

160

24

TMUs

8

ROPs

4

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

128 KB

Theoretical Performance

5.600 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

3.000 GPixel/s

16.80 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

6.000 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

537.6 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

240.0 GFLOPS

33.60 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Mars

GPU Name

Seymour

Mars M2 LP (216-0842009)

GPU Variant

Seymour XTX M2 (216-0809000)

GCN 1.0

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

0.95 billion

Transistors

0.37 billion

77 mm²

Die Size

67 mm²

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

Unknown

-

Suggested PSU

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

-

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.4

2.1 (1.2)

OpenCL

1.2

1.2.170

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

-

6.5 (5.1)

Shader Model

5.0

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