AMD Radeon HD 6490M vs NVIDIA GeForce Go 7800 GTX

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon HD 6490M and NVIDIA GeForce Go 7800 GTX 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 - 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 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

AMD Radeon HD 6490M

NVIDIA GeForce Go 7800 GTX

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 6490M

Videocard is newer: launch date 5 year(s) 3 month(s) later
Around 82% higher core clock speed: 800 MHz vs 440 MHz
6.7x more pipelines: 160 vs 24
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 110 nm
2.9x more memory clock speed: 3200 MHz vs 1100 MHz
Around 80% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 378 vs 210
2.2x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 514 vs 239
4.4x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 2543 vs 575
4.4x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 2543 vs 575

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	4 January 2011 vs 29 September 2005
Core clock speed	800 MHz vs 440 MHz
Pipelines	160 vs 24
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm vs 110 nm
Memory clock speed	3200 MHz vs 1100 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	378 vs 210
PassMark - G2D Mark	514 vs 239
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	2543 vs 575
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	2543 vs 575

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce Go 7800 GTX

Around 65% higher texture fill rate: 10.56 GTexel / s vs 6.4 GTexel / s

Texture fill rate	10.56 GTexel / s vs 6.4 GTexel / s

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon HD 6490M
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce Go 7800 GTX

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

378

210

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

514

239

GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)

GPU 1

GPU 2

2543

575

GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)

GPU 1

GPU 2

2543

575

Name	AMD Radeon HD 6490M	NVIDIA GeForce Go 7800 GTX
PassMark - G3D Mark	378	210
PassMark - G2D Mark	514	239
Geekbench - OpenCL	4866
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	2.554
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	96.344
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	0
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	6.001
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	10.814
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	1405
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	2543	575
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	1405
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	2543	575

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon HD 6490M	NVIDIA GeForce Go 7800 GTX
Essentials
Architecture	TeraScale 2	Curie
Code name	Seymour	G70
Launch date	4 January 2011	29 September 2005
Launch price (MSRP)	$1,193.03
Place in performance rating	1189	1192
Price now	$1,193.03
Type	Laptop	Laptop
Value for money (0-100)	0.39
Technical info
Core clock speed	800 MHz	440 MHz
Floating-point performance	256 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	110 nm
Pipelines	160	24
Texture fill rate	6.4 GTexel / s	10.56 GTexel / s
Transistor count	370 million	302 million
Boost clock speed		440 MHz
Thermal Design Power (TDP)		65 Watt
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	PCIe 1.0 x16
Laptop size		large
Supplementary power connectors		None
API support
DirectX	11.2 (11_0)	9.0c
OpenGL	4.4	2.1
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	512 MB	512 MB
Memory bandwidth	25.6 GB / s	35.2 GB / s
Memory bus width	64 Bit	550 Bit
Memory clock speed	3200 MHz	1100 MHz
Memory type	DDR3 / GDDR5	256
Shared memory	0	0