HD Graphics 3000 and Radeon HD 6490M Mac Edition - video card comparison
HD Graphics 3000
Radeon HD 6490M Mac Edition
Architecture
Gen. 6 Sandy Bridge (2011)
TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)
GPU code name
Sandy Bridge
Seymour
Market segment
Laptop
Desktop
Release date
February 2011
May 2011
Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Boost clock speed
1350 MHz
-
Core clock speed
350 MHz
750 MHz
Floating-point performance
20.4 gflops
240 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
32 nm
40 nm
Number of transistors
995 million
370 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
12
160
Power consumption (TDP)
unknown
-
Texture fill rate
13.80
6.000
Memory type
System Shared
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
System Shared
256 MB
Memory bus width
64/128 Bit
64 Bit
Memory clock speed
System Shared
3176 MHz
Memory bandwidth
-
25.41 GB/s
Shared memory
+
-
Display Connectors
No outputs
No outputs
DirectX
11.1 (10_1)
11.2 (11_0)
OpenCL
N/A
1.2
OpenGL
3.1
4.4
Shader Model
4.1
5.0
Vulkan
N/A
N/A