AMD Radeon Pro 5500M vs AMD Radeon HD 6490M Mac Edition

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AMD Radeon Pro 5500M AMD Radeon HD 6490M Mac Edition

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon Pro 5500M 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 Pro 5500M 's Advantages

Released 8 years and 6 months late

Boost Clock1450MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.0GB/s vs 25.41GB/s)

1376 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon Pro 5500M +1755%

4.454 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6490M Mac Edition

0.24 TFLOPS

Radeon Pro 5500M

VS

Radeon HD 6490M Mac Edition

Graphics Card

Nov 2019

Release Date

May 2011

Radeon Pro Mac

Generation

Vancouver

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 4.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1000 MHz

Base Clock

-

1450 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

794 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

256MB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

64bit

192.0GB/s

Bandwidth

25.41GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

24

Compute Units

2

1536

Shading Units

160

96

TMUs

8

32

ROPs

4

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

128 KB

Theoretical Performance

46.40 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

3.000 GPixel/s

139.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

6.000 GTexel/s

8.909 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

4.454 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

240.0 GFLOPS

278.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Navi 14

GPU Name

Seymour

Navi 14 ULA

GPU Variant

Seymour XTX M2 (216-0809000)

RDNA 1.0

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

7 nm

Process Size

40 nm

6.4 billion

Transistors

0.37 billion

158 mm²

Die Size

67 mm²

Board Design

85W

TDP

Unknown

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.4

2.1

OpenCL

1.2

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

-

6.5

Shader Model

5.0

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