AMD Radeon HD 6630M Mac Edition vs AMD Radeon HD 6730M

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon HD 6630M Mac Edition and AMD Radeon HD 6730M 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 6630M Mac Edition

AMD Radeon HD 6730M

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 6630M Mac Edition

Around 35% lower typical power consumption: 26 Watt vs 35 Watt
Around 50% higher memory clock speed: 2400 MHz vs 1600 MHz

Thermal Design Power (TDP)	26 Watt vs 35 Watt
Memory clock speed	2400 MHz vs 1600 MHz

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 6730M

Around 45% higher core clock speed: 725 MHz vs 500 MHz
Around 45% higher texture fill rate: 17.4 GTexel / s vs 12 GTexel / s
Around 45% better floating-point performance: 696.0 gflops vs 480.0 gflops
4x more maximum memory size: 1 GB vs 256 MB

Core clock speed	725 MHz vs 500 MHz
Texture fill rate	17.4 GTexel / s vs 12 GTexel / s
Floating-point performance	696.0 gflops vs 480.0 gflops
Maximum memory size	1 GB vs 256 MB

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon HD 6630M Mac Edition	AMD Radeon HD 6730M
Essentials
Architecture	TeraScale 2	TeraScale 2
Code name	Whistler	Whistler
Launch date	4 January 2011	4 January 2011
Place in performance rating	not rated	not rated
Type	Desktop	Laptop
Technical info
Core clock speed	500 MHz	725 MHz
Floating-point performance	480.0 gflops	696.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	40 nm
Pipelines	480	480
Texture fill rate	12 GTexel / s	17.4 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	26 Watt	35 Watt
Transistor count	716 million	716 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	MXM-A (3.0)
Laptop size		medium sized
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	19.2 GB / s	25.6 GB / s
Memory bus width	64 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	2400 MHz	1600 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	DDR3
Shared memory		0