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

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AMD Radeon RX 5500M

AMD Radeon HD 6490M Mac Edition

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 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 RX 5500M 's Advantages

Released 8 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock1645MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 256GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.0GB/s vs 25.41GB/s)

1248 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 5500M +1830%

4.632 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6490M Mac Edition

0.24 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 5500M

VS

Radeon HD 6490M Mac Edition

Graphics Card

Oct 2019

Release Date

May 2011

Mobility Radeon

Generation

Vancouver

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 4.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1375 MHz

Base Clock

-

1645 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

794 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

256MB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

64bit

224.0GB/s

Bandwidth

25.41GB/s

Render Config

22

Compute Units

2

-

1408

Shading Units

160

88

TMUs

8

32

ROPs

4

-

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

128 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

52.64 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

3.000 GPixel/s

144.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

6.000 GTexel/s

9.265 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

4.632 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

240.0 GFLOPS

289.5 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

85W

TDP

Unknown

-

No outputs

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Processor

Navi 14

GPU Name

Seymour

Navi 14 XTM

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

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

-

6.5

Shader Model

5.0

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