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AMD Radeon HD 6490M Mac Edition vs NVIDIA T600 Max-Q

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 256MB VRAM Radeon HD 6490M Mac Edition and 4GB VRAM T600 Max Q to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA T600 Max-Q 's Advantages
Released 9 years and 11 months late
Boost Clock1395MHz
More VRAM (4GB vs 256GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (160.0GB/s vs 25.41GB/s)
736 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)
Radeon HD 6490M Mac Edition
0.24 TFLOPS
T600 Max Q +941%
2.5 TFLOPS

Graphics Card

May 2011
Release Date
Apr 2021
Vancouver
Generation
Quadro Turing-M
Mobile
Type
Mobile
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-
Base Clock
930 MHz
-
Boost Clock
1395 MHz
794 MHz
Memory Clock
1250 MHz

Memory

256MB
Memory Size
4GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR6
64bit
Memory Bus
128bit
25.41GB/s
Bandwidth
160.0GB/s

Render Config

2
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
14
160
Shading Units
896
8
TMUs
56
4
ROPs
32
-
-
-
-
-
-
8 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
64 KB (per SM)
128 KB
L2 Cache
1024 KB
-
-
-

Theoretical Performance

3.000 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
44.64 GPixel/s
6.000 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
78.12 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
5.000 TFLOPS
240.0 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
2.500 TFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
78.12 GFLOPS

Board Design

Unknown
TDP
40W
-
-
-
Portable Device Dependent
Outputs
Portable Device Dependent
-
Power Connectors
None

Graphics Processor

Seymour
GPU Name
TU117
Seymour XTX M2 (216-0809000)
GPU Variant
-
TeraScale 2
Architecture
Turing
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
40 nm
Process Size
12 nm
0.37 billion
Transistors
4.7 billion
67 mm²
Die Size
200 mm²

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)
DirectX
12 (12_1)
4.4
OpenGL
4.6
1.2
OpenCL
3.0
N/A
Vulkan
1.3
-
CUDA
7.5
5.0
Shader Model
6.7
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