AMD Radeon HD 6490M Mac Edition: specs and benchmarks
Summary
AMD started Radeon HD 6490M Mac Edition sales 2 May 2011. This is a desktop graphics card based on a TeraScale 2 architecture and made with 40 nm manufacturing process. It is primarily aimed at gamer market. 256 MB of GDDR5 memory clocked at 3.18 GHz are supplied, and together with 64 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 25.41 GB/s.
Compatibility-wise, this is card attached via PCIe 2.0 x16 interface.
General info
Some basic facts about Radeon HD 6490M Mac Edition: architecture, market segment, release date etc.
| Place in performance ranking | not rated | |
| Place by popularity | not in top-100 | |
| Architecture | TeraScale 2 (2009−2015) | |
| GPU code name | Seymour | |
| Market segment | Desktop | |
| Release date | 2 May 2011 (12 years old) | |
| Current price | $180 | of 168889 (A100 PCIe 80 GB) |
Technical specs
Radeon HD 6490M Mac Edition's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of Radeon HD 6490M Mac Edition's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.
| Pipelines / CUDA cores | 160 | of 20480 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT) |
| Core clock speed | 750 MHz | of 2610 (Radeon RX 6500 XT) |
| Number of transistors | 370 million | of 14400 (GeForce GTX 1080 SLI Mobile) |
| Manufacturing process technology | 40 nm | of 4 (H100 PCIe) |
| Texture fill rate | 6.000 | of 969.9 (H100 SXM5 96 GB) |
| Floating-point performance | 240 gflops | of 16384 (Radeon Pro Duo) |
Size and compatibility
This section provides details about the physical dimensions of Radeon HD 6490M Mac Edition and its compatibility with other computer components. This information is useful when selecting a computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards, it includes details about the interface and bus (for motherboard compatibility) and additional power connectors (for power supply compatibility).
| Interface | PCIe 2.0 x16 |
Memory
Parameters of memory installed on Radeon HD 6490M Mac Edition: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that GPUs integrated into processors have no dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM instead.
| Memory type | GDDR5 | |
| Maximum RAM amount | 256 MB | of 192 (Radeon Instinct MI300X) |
| Memory bus width | 64 Bit | of 8192 (Radeon Instinct MI250X) |
| Memory clock speed | 3176 MHz | of 23000 (GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER) |
| Memory bandwidth | 25.41 GB/s | of 3276 (Aldebaran) |
Video outputs and ports
Types and number of video connectors present on Radeon HD 6490M Mac Edition. As a rule, this section is relevant only for desktop reference graphics cards, since for notebook ones the availability of certain video outputs depends on the laptop model, while non-reference desktop models can (though not necessarily will) bear a different set of video ports.
| Display Connectors | No outputs |
API support
APIs supported by Radeon HD 6490M Mac Edition, sometimes including their particular versions.
| DirectX | 11.2 (11_0) | |
| Shader Model | 5.0 | |
| OpenGL | 4.4 | of 4.6 (GeForce GTX 1080 Mobile) |
| OpenCL | 1.2 | |
| Vulkan | N/A |
NVIDIA equivalent
According to our data, the closest NVIDIA alternative to Radeon HD 6490M Mac Edition is GeForce GT 240.
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