AMD Radeon RX 540 Mobile vs AMD Radeon HD 6490M Mac Edition

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AMD Radeon RX 540 Mobile AMD Radeon HD 6490M Mac Edition

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon RX 540 Mobile 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 RX 540 Mobile 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 6 months late

Boost Clock1219MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (96.00GB/s vs 25.41GB/s)

352 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 540 Mobile +420%

1.248 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6490M Mac Edition

0.24 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 540 Mobile

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Radeon HD 6490M Mac Edition

Graphics Card

Nov 2017

Release Date

May 2011

Mobility Radeon

Generation

Vancouver

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1124 MHz

Base Clock

-

1219 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

794 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

256MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

64bit

96.00GB/s

Bandwidth

25.41GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

8

Compute Units

2

512

Shading Units

160

32

TMUs

8

16

ROPs

4

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

128 KB

Theoretical Performance

19.50 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

3.000 GPixel/s

39.01 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

6.000 GTexel/s

1248 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

1248 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

240.0 GFLOPS

78.02 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Lexa

GPU Name

Seymour

Lexa PRO (215-0904018)

GPU Variant

Seymour XTX M2 (216-0809000)

GCN 4.0

Architecture

TeraScale 2

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

40 nm

2.2 billion

Transistors

0.37 billion

103 mm²

Die Size

67 mm²

Board Design

50W

TDP

Unknown

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.4

2.1

OpenCL

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

5.0

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