30-Core M3 Max vs AMD Radeon HD 6490M Mac

30-Core M3 Max
AMD Radeon HD 6490M Mac
3840 Shaders
Shared Memory
1398MHz
160 Shaders
256MB GDDR5
750MHz
Peak AI Performance
10.74 TFLOPS
FP16
Peak AI Performance
240 GFLOPS
FP32
FP32
10.74 TFLOPS
FP32
240 GFLOPS
FP16
10.74 TFLOPS
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Form Factor
iGPU
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Form Factor
Soldered
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TDP
Shared
TDP
25W
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GB6 OpenCL N/A
0%
GB6 OpenCL N/A
0%
GB6 Metal N/A
0%
GB6 Metal N/A
0%
GB6 Vulkan N/A
0%
GB6 Vulkan N/A
0%
GB5 OpenCL 76,805
25%
GB5 OpenCL N/A
0%
GB5 CUDA N/A
0%
GB5 CUDA N/A
0%
GB5 Metal 85,880
48%
GB5 Metal N/A
0%
GB5 Vulkan N/A
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GB5 Vulkan N/A
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OCT 2020.1 N/A
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OCT 2020.1 N/A
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OCT Metal N/A
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OCT Metal N/A
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Manufacturer
Apple
Manufacturer
AMD
Chip Designer
Apple
Chip Designer
AMD
Architecture
Apple Gen 6
Architecture
TeraScale 2
Family
M Series
Family
Radeon HD 6000
Codename
G16C
M3 Max
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Codename
Caicos
RV910
Variant
Seymour XT
Market Segment
Laptop
Market Segment
Laptop
Release Date
10/30/2023
Release Date
1/4/2011
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Foundry
TSMC
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Fabrication Node
40nm
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Die Size
67 mm²
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Transistor Count
370 Million
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Transistor Density
5.52M/mm²
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Form
iGPU
Form
Soldered
Shading Units
3840 Shaders
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Shading Units
160 Shaders
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Texture Mapping Units
240 TMUs
Texture Mapping Units
8 TMUs
Render Output Units
120 ROPs
Render Output Units
4 ROPs
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Ray-Tracing Cores
30 RT-Cores
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Compute Units
2 CUs
Execution Units
480 EUs
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Graphics Processing Clusters
30 GPCs
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1398MHz
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750MHz
Peak AI Performance
10.74 TFLOPS
FP16
Peak AI Performance
240 GFLOPS
FP32
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FP16
10.74 TFLOPS
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FP32
10.74 TFLOPS
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FP32
240 GFLOPS
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Pixel Fillrate
167.76 GPixel/s
Pixel Fillrate
3 GPixel/s
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Texture Fillrate
335.52 GTexel/s
Texture Fillrate
6 GTexel/s
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L1
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L1
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8KB/CU
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L2
Unknown
L2
128KB Shared
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Shared Memory
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256MB
GDDR5
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Bus Width
64Bit
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Clock
794MHz
Transfer Rate
3.2GT/s
Bandwidth
25.4GB/s
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TDP
Shared
TDP
25W
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No Ports
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No Ports
Max Resolution
7680x4320
Max Resolution
2560x1600
Max Resolution Refresh Rate
60Hz
Max Resolution Refresh Rate
60Hz
Variable Refresh Rate
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Variable Refresh Rate
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Display Stream Compression (DSC)
Supported
Display Stream Compression (DSC)
Not Supported
Multi Monitor Support
4
Multi Monitor Support
2
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Model
2x Apple Media Engine 3
No Encoders
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Codec
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AVC (H.264)
HEVC (H.265)
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ProRes
ProRes Raw
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Model
Apple Media Engine 3
Model
UVD 3.0
Codec
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AVC (H.264)
HEVC (H.265)
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ProRes
ProRes Raw
Codec
MPEG-1
MPEG-2
MPEG-4
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VC-1
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AVC (H.264)
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Direct X
11
Direct 3D
11_1
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OpenGL
4.5
OpenCL
1.2
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Shader Model
5.0
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GFX
4
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Not a Card
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Not a Card
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PCIe Version
2.1
PCIe Lanes
16
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Change Comparison