AMD Radeon HD 6490 vs ATI Mobility Radeon 9100 PRO IGP

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon HD 6490 and ATI Mobility Radeon 9100 PRO IGP videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory.

AMD Radeon HD 6490

ATI Mobility Radeon 9100 PRO IGP

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 6490

Videocard is newer: launch date 8 year(s) 0 month(s) later
Around 83% higher core clock speed: 550 MHz vs 300 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 150 nm

Launch date	4 July 2011 vs 23 June 2003
Core clock speed	550 MHz vs 300 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm vs 150 nm

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon HD 6490	ATI Mobility Radeon 9100 PRO IGP
Essentials
Architecture	TeraScale 2	Rage 7
Code name	Redwood	RS350
Launch date	4 July 2011	23 June 2003
Place in performance rating	not rated	not rated
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Technical info
Core clock speed	550 MHz	300 MHz
Floating-point performance	352.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	150 nm
Pipelines	320
Texture fill rate	8.8 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	39 Watt
Transistor count	627 million	76 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	AGP 4x
Length	165 mm
Supplementary power connectors	None	None
API support
DirectX	11.2 (11_0)	8.1
OpenGL	4.4	1.4
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	1 GB
Memory bandwidth	16 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	1000 MHz
Memory type	DDR2