Radeon R9 M370X Mac Edition vs HD 6630M

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking917not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency4.73no data
ArchitectureTeraScale 2 (2009−2015)GCN 1.0 (2011−2020)
GPU code nameWhistlerTropo
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date4 January 2011 (13 years ago)5 May 2015 (9 years ago)

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 cores480640
Core clock speed500 MHz775 MHz
Boost clock speedno data800 MHz
Number of transistors716 million1,500 million
Manufacturing process technology40 nm28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)26 Wattno data
Texture fill rate12.0032.00
Floating-point processing power0.48 TFLOPS1.024 TFLOPS
ROPs816
TMUs2440

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).

Laptop sizemedium sizedno data
InterfacePCIe 2.0 x16PCIe 3.0 x16

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 typeDDR3GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount1 GB2 GB
Memory bus width128 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed800 MHz1125 MHz
Memory bandwidth25.6 GB/s72 GB/s
Shared memory--

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 outputsNo outputs

API compatibility

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

DirectX11.2 (11_0)12 (11_1)
Shader Model5.05.1
OpenGL4.44.6
OpenCL1.21.2
VulkanN/A1.2.131

Pros & cons summary


Recency 4 January 2011 5 May 2015
Maximum RAM amount 1 GB 2 GB
Chip lithography 40 nm 28 nm

R9 M370X Mac Edition has an age advantage of 4 years, a 100% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 42.9% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon HD 6630M and Radeon R9 M370X Mac Edition. We've got no test results to judge.


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