GeForce 8800 GS and Radeon HD 6490M Mac Edition - video card comparison
GeForce 8800 GS
Radeon HD 6490M Mac Edition
Architecture
Tesla (2006−2010)
TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)
GPU code name
G92
Seymour
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
January 2008
May 2011
Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin
-
Core clock speed
550 MHz
750 MHz
Floating-point performance
264 gflops
240 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
65 nm
40 nm
Number of transistors
754 million
370 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
96
160
Power consumption (TDP)
105 Watt
-
Texture fill rate
26.40
6.000
Memory type
GDDR3
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
384 MB
256 MB
Memory bus width
192 Bit
64 Bit
Memory clock speed
1600 MHz
3176 MHz
Memory bandwidth
38.4 GB/s
25.41 GB/s
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x S-Video
No outputs
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
11.2 (11_0)
CUDA
1.1
-
OpenCL
1.1
1.2
OpenGL
3.3
4.4
Shader Model
4.0
5.0
Vulkan
N/A
N/A