AMD Radeon HD 6490M Mac Edition vs AMD Radeon HD 6670

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon HD 6490M Mac Edition and AMD Radeon HD 6670 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 6490M Mac Edition

  • 3x more memory clock speed: 3176 MHz vs 1050 MHz
Memory clock speed 3176 MHz vs 1050 MHz

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 6670

  • 3.2x more texture fill rate: 19.2 GTexel / s vs 6 GTexel / s
  • 3x more pipelines: 480 vs 160
  • 3.2x better floating-point performance: 768.0 gflops vs 240 gflops
  • 4x more maximum memory size: 1 GB vs 256 MB
Texture fill rate 19.2 GTexel / s vs 6 GTexel / s
Pipelines 480 vs 160
Floating-point performance 768.0 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 6670

Name AMD Radeon HD 6490M Mac Edition AMD Radeon HD 6670
PassMark - G3D Mark 727
PassMark - G2D Mark 244
Geekbench - OpenCL 1899
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 4.861
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 235.463
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 0.463
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 15.918
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 38.551
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 1564
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3260
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3348
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 1564
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3260
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3348
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 0

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD Radeon HD 6490M Mac Edition AMD Radeon HD 6670

Essentials

Architecture TeraScale 2 TeraScale 2
Code name Seymour Turks
Launch date 2 May 2011 19 April 2011
Place in performance rating not rated 1261
Type Desktop Desktop
Design AMD Radeon HD 6000 Series
Launch price (MSRP) $99
Price now $102.99
Value for money (0-100) 13.12

Technical info

Core clock speed 750 MHz
Floating-point performance 240 gflops 768.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm 40 nm
Pipelines 160 480
Texture fill rate 6 GTexel / s 19.2 GTexel / s
Transistor count 370 million 716 million
Boost clock speed 800 MHz
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 66 Watt

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors No outputs 1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA
DisplayPort support
Dual-link DVI support
Eyefinity
HDMI
VGA

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 2.0 x16 PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus support PCIe 2.0 x16
Length 168 mm
Supplementary power connectors None

API support

DirectX 11.2 (11_0) 11
OpenGL 4.4 4.4

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 256 MB 1 GB
Memory bandwidth 25.41 GB / s 64 GB/s
Memory bus width 64 Bit 128 Bit
Memory clock speed 3176 MHz 1050 MHz
Memory type GDDR5 GDDR5

Technologies

AMD Eyefinity
CrossFire