AMD Radeon HD 6490M vs NVIDIA GeForce GTS 150M
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 6490M and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTS 150M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
AMD Radeon HD 6490M 's Advantages
Released 1 years and 10 months late
96 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA GeForce GTS 150M 's Advantages
More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (51.20GB/s vs 25.60GB/s)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon HD 6490M
+100%
0.256 TFLOPS
GeForce GTS 150M
0.128 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Jan 2011
Release Date
Mar 2009
Vancouver
Generation
GeForce 100M
Mobile
Type
Mobile
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
800 MHz
Memory Clock
800 MHz
Memory
512MB
Memory Size
1024MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR3
64bit
Memory Bus
256bit
25.60GB/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
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
3.200 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
6.400 GPixel/s
6.400 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
12.80 GTexel/s
-
-
-
256.0 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
128.0 GFLOPS
-
-
-
Board Design
Unknown
TDP
45W
-
-
-
Portable Device Dependent
Outputs
No outputs
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-
-
Graphics Processor
Seymour
GPU Name
G94
Seymour XTX S3
(216-0809024)
GPU Variant
N10E-GE1
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
