AMD Radeon HD 6490M Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce 9800M GTS
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 256MB VRAM Radeon HD 6490M Mac Edition and 1024MB VRAM GeForce 9800M GTS to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
AMD Radeon HD 6490M Mac Edition 's Advantages
Released 2 years and 9 months late
96 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA GeForce 9800M GTS 's Advantages
More VRAM (1024GB vs 256GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (51.20GB/s vs 25.41GB/s)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon HD 6490M Mac Edition
+25%
0.24 TFLOPS
GeForce 9800M GTS
0.192 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
May 2011
Release Date
Aug 2008
Vancouver
Generation
GeForce 9M
Mobile
Type
Mobile
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
794 MHz
Memory Clock
800 MHz
Memory
256MB
Memory Size
1024MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR3
64bit
Memory Bus
256bit
25.41GB/s
Bandwidth
51.20GB/s
Render Config
2
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
8
160
Shading Units
64
8
TMUs
32
4
ROPs
16
-
-
-
-
-
-
8 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
-
128 KB
L2 Cache
64 KB
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-
-
Theoretical Performance
3.000 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
9.600 GPixel/s
6.000 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
19.20 GTexel/s
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-
-
240.0 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
192.0 GFLOPS
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-
-
Board Design
Unknown
TDP
75W
-
-
-
Portable Device Dependent
Outputs
No outputs
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-
-
Graphics Processor
Seymour
GPU Name
G94
Seymour XTX M2
(216-0809000)
GPU Variant
NB9E-GT1
TeraScale 2
Architecture
Tesla
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
40 nm
Process Size
65 nm
0.37 billion
Transistors
0.505 billion
67 mm²
Die Size
240 mm²
Graphics Features
11.2 (11_0)
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
4.4
OpenGL
3.3
1.2
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
-
CUDA
1.1
5.0
Shader Model
4.0
