AMD Radeon HD 6490M Mac Edition vs NVIDIA NVS 5400M
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 256MB VRAM Radeon HD 6490M Mac Edition and 2GB VRAM NVS 5400M 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
64 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA NVS 5400M 's Advantages
Released 1 years and 1 months late
More VRAM (2GB vs 256GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (28.80GB/s vs 25.41GB/s)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon HD 6490M Mac Edition
0.24 TFLOPS
NVS 5400M
+5%
0.253 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
May 2011
Release Date
Jun 2012
Vancouver
Generation
NVS Mobile
Mobile
Type
Mobile
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
MXM
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
794 MHz
Memory Clock
900 MHz
Memory
256MB
Memory Size
2GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR3
64bit
Memory Bus
128bit
25.41GB/s
Bandwidth
28.80GB/s
Render Config
2
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
2
160
Shading Units
96
8
TMUs
16
4
ROPs
4
-
-
-
-
-
-
8 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
64 KB (per SM)
128 KB
L2 Cache
256 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
3.000 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
2.640 GPixel/s
6.000 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
10.56 GTexel/s
-
-
-
240.0 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
253.4 GFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
21.12 GFLOPS
Board Design
Unknown
TDP
35W
-
-
-
Portable Device Dependent
Outputs
No outputs
-
-
-
Graphics Processor
Seymour
GPU Name
GF108
Seymour XTX M2
(216-0809000)
GPU Variant
N13P-NS1
TeraScale 2
Architecture
Fermi
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
40 nm
Process Size
40 nm
0.37 billion
Transistors
0.585 billion
67 mm²
Die Size
116 mm²
Graphics Features
11.2 (11_0)
DirectX
12 (11_0)
4.4
OpenGL
4.6
1.2
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
-
CUDA
2.1
5.0
Shader Model
5.1
