Radeon RX 560D vs HD 6630M Mac Edition

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Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the rankingnot ratednot rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureTeraScale 2 (2009−2015)GCN 4.0 (2016−2020)
GPU code nameWhistlerPolaris 21
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date4 January 2011 (13 years ago)4 July 2017 (7 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)no data$99

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores480896
Core clock speed500 MHz1090 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1175 MHz
Number of transistors716 million3,000 million
Manufacturing process technology40 nm14 nm
Power consumption (TDP)26 Watt65 Watt
Texture fill rate12.0065.80
Floating-point processing power0.48 TFLOPS2.106 TFLOPS
ROPs816
TMUs2456

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

InterfacePCIe 2.0 x16PCIe 3.0 x8
Lengthno data170 mm
Widthno data2-slot
Supplementary power connectorsno dataNone

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeGDDR5GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount256 MB4 GB
Memory bus width64 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed600 MHz1500 MHz
Memory bandwidth19.2 GB/s96 GB/s

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display ConnectorsNo outputs1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
HDMI-+

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX11.2 (11_0)12 (12_0)
Shader Model5.06.4
OpenGL4.44.6
OpenCL1.22.0
VulkanN/A1.2.131

Pros & cons summary


Recency 4 January 2011 4 July 2017
Maximum RAM amount 256 MB 4 GB
Chip lithography 40 nm 14 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 26 Watt 65 Watt

HD 6630M Mac Edition has 150% lower power consumption.

RX 560D, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 6 years, a 1500% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 185.7% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon HD 6630M Mac Edition and Radeon RX 560D. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon HD 6630M Mac Edition is a notebook card while Radeon RX 560D is a desktop one.


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