AMD Radeon R5 M230 Rebrand vs AMD Radeon HD 6490M

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AMD Radeon R5 M230 Rebrand

AMD Radeon HD 6490M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R5 M230 Rebrand and 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 6490M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R5 M230 Rebrand 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock850MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 512GB)

160 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon HD 6490M 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (25.60GB/s vs 14.40GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R5 M230 Rebrand +112%

0.544 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6490M

0.256 TFLOPS

Radeon R5 M230 Rebrand

VS

Radeon HD 6490M

Graphics Card

May 2014

Release Date

Jan 2011

Crystal System

Generation

Vancouver

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

780 MHz

Base Clock

-

850 MHz

Boost Clock

-

900 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

512MB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

64bit

Memory Bus

64bit

14.40GB/s

Bandwidth

25.60GB/s

Render Config

5

Compute Units

2

-

320

Shading Units

160

20

TMUs

8

ROPs

4

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

128 KB

L2 Cache

128 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

6.800 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

3.200 GPixel/s

17.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

6.400 GTexel/s

-

544.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

256.0 GFLOPS

34.00 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

Unknown

-

No outputs

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

-

Graphics Processor

Sun

GPU Name

Seymour

Sun LE

GPU Variant

Seymour XTX S3 (216-0809024)

GCN 1.0

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

0.69 billion

Transistors

0.37 billion

56 mm²

Die Size

67 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.4

1.2

OpenCL

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

5.1

Shader Model

5.0

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