NVIDIA GeForce GTX 870M vs AMD Radeon HD 6490M Mac

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 870M
AMD Radeon HD 6490M Mac
1344 Shaders
3GB GDDR5
941MHz
160 Shaders
256MB GDDR5
750MHz
Peak AI Performance
2.53 TOPS
INT32
Peak AI Performance
240 GFLOPS
FP32
FP32
2.53 TFLOPS
FP32
240 GFLOPS
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Form Factor
Soldered
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Form Factor
Soldered
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TDP
110W
TDP
25W
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GB6 OpenCL N/A
0%
GB6 Metal N/A
0%
GB6 Vulkan N/A
0%
GB5 OpenCL N/A
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GB5 OpenCL N/A
0%
GB5 CUDA N/A
0%
GB5 CUDA N/A
0%
GB5 Metal N/A
0%
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
NVIDIA
Manufacturer
AMD
Chip Designer
NVIDIA
Chip Designer
AMD
Architecture
Kepler
Architecture
TeraScale 2
Family
GeForce 800
Family
Radeon HD 6000
Codename
NVE4
GK104
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Codename
Caicos
RV910
Variant
Seymour XT
Market Segment
Laptop
Market Segment
Laptop
Release Date
3/12/2014
Release Date
1/4/2011
Foundry
TSMC
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Foundry
TSMC
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Fabrication Node
28nm
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Fabrication Node
40nm
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Die Size
294 mm²
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Die Size
67 mm²
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Transistor Count
3.5 Billion
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Transistor Count
370 Million
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Transistor Density
12.04M/mm²
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Transistor Density
5.52M/mm²
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Form
Soldered
Form
Soldered
Shading Units
1344 Shaders
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Shading Units
160 Shaders
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Texture Mapping Units
112 TMUs
Texture Mapping Units
8 TMUs
Render Output Units
24 ROPs
Render Output Units
4 ROPs
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Streaming Multiprocessors
7 SMs
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Compute Units
2 CUs
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941MHz
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750MHz
Peak AI Performance
2.53 TOPS
INT32
Peak AI Performance
240 GFLOPS
FP32
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FP32
2.53 TFLOPS
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FP32
240 GFLOPS
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FP64
110 GFLOPS
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INT32
2.53 TOPS
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Pixel Fillrate
22.584 GPixel/s
Pixel Fillrate
3 GPixel/s
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Texture Fillrate
105.392 GTexel/s
Texture Fillrate
6 GTexel/s
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L1
48KB/SM Tex
16KB/SM
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L1
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8KB/CU
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L2
512KB Shared
L2
128KB Shared
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3GB
GDDR5
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256MB
GDDR5
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Bus Width
192Bit
Bus Width
64Bit
Clock
1250MHz
Transfer Rate
5GT/s
Bandwidth
120GB/s
Clock
794MHz
Transfer Rate
3.2GT/s
Bandwidth
25.4GB/s
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TDP
110W
TDP
25W
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No Ports
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No Ports
Max Resolution
4096x2304
Max Resolution
2560x1600
Max Resolution Refresh Rate
60Hz
Max Resolution Refresh Rate
60Hz
Variable Refresh Rate
G-Sync
FreeSync
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Variable Refresh Rate
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Display Stream Compression (DSC)
Not Supported
Display Stream Compression (DSC)
Not Supported
Multi Monitor Support
3
Multi Monitor Support
2
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Model
NVENC 1
No Encoders
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Codec
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AVC (H.264)
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Model
NVDEC 1
Model
UVD 3.0
Codec
MPEG-1
MPEG-2
MPEG-4
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VC-1
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AVC (H.264)
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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
12
Direct 3D
11_0
Direct X
11
Direct 3D
11_1
OpenGL
4.6
OpenCL
3.0
Vulkan
1.2
OpenGL
4.5
OpenCL
1.2
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Shader Model
6.5
CUDA
3.0
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PureVideo HD
VP5
VDPAU
Feature Set D
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
3.0
PCIe Lanes
16
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PCIe Version
2.1
PCIe Lanes
16
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