Radeon R5 (Kaveri) and Radeon HD 6490M - video card comparison

Radeon R5 (Kaveri)

Radeon HD 6490M

Architecture

GCN 1.1 (2014)

Terascale 2 (2009−2015)

GPU code name

Kaveri

Seymour XT

Market segment

Laptop

Laptop

Release date

June 2014

January 2011

Interface

-

PCIe 2.0 x16

Boost clock speed

626 MHz

-

Core clock speed

514 MHz

700 / 750 / 800 MHz

Floating-point performance

-

256 gflops

Manufacturing process technology

28 nm

40 nm

Number of transistors

2410 Million

370 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

256

160

Texture fill rate

-

6.400

Memory type

-

DDR3/GDDR5

Maximum RAM amount

-

512 MB

Memory bus width

64/128 Bit

64 Bit

Memory clock speed

-

800 MHz

Memory bandwidth

-

25.6 GB/s

Shared memory

+

-

Display Connectors

-

No outputs

DirectX

12 (FL 12_0)

11.2 (11_0)

OpenCL

-

1.2

OpenGL

-

4.4

Shader Model

-

5.0

Vulkan

-

N/A