AMD Radeon HD 6490M Mac Edition vs AMD Radeon HD 6650A

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon HD 6490M Mac Edition and AMD Radeon HD 6650A videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 6490M Mac Edition

  • Around 25% higher core clock speed: 750 MHz vs 600 MHz
  • Around 76% higher memory clock speed: 3176 MHz vs 1800 MHz
Core clock speed 750 MHz vs 600 MHz
Memory clock speed 3176 MHz vs 1800 MHz

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 6650A

  • 2.4x more texture fill rate: 14.4 GTexel / s vs 6 GTexel / s
  • 3x more pipelines: 480 vs 160
  • 2.4x better floating-point performance: 576.0 gflops vs 240 gflops
  • 4x more maximum memory size: 1 GB vs 256 MB
Texture fill rate 14.4 GTexel / s vs 6 GTexel / s
Pipelines 480 vs 160
Floating-point performance 576.0 gflops vs 240 gflops
Maximum memory size 1 GB vs 256 MB

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon HD 6490M Mac Edition
GPU 2: AMD Radeon HD 6650A

Name AMD Radeon HD 6490M Mac Edition AMD Radeon HD 6650A
PassMark - G2D Mark 418
PassMark - G3D Mark 836

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD Radeon HD 6490M Mac Edition AMD Radeon HD 6650A

Essentials

Architecture TeraScale 2 TeraScale 2
Code name Seymour Onega
Launch date 2 May 2011 19 April 2011
Place in performance rating not rated 352
Type Desktop Desktop

Technical info

Core clock speed 750 MHz 600 MHz
Floating-point performance 240 gflops 576.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm 40 nm
Pipelines 160 480
Texture fill rate 6 GTexel / s 14.4 GTexel / s
Transistor count 370 million 716 million
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 45 Watt

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors No outputs No outputs

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 2.0 x16 MXM-A (3.0)

API support

DirectX 11.2 (11_0) 11.2 (11_0)
OpenGL 4.4 4.4

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 256 MB 1 GB
Memory bandwidth 25.41 GB / s 28.8 GB / s
Memory bus width 64 Bit 128 Bit
Memory clock speed 3176 MHz 1800 MHz
Memory type GDDR5 DDR3