Radeon R5 M230 and Radeon HD 6490M - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon R5 M230 vs Radeon HD 6490M
Radeon R5 M230
424
Radeon HD 6490M
388
Radeon R5 M230
Radeon HD 6490M
Architecture
GCN (2011−2017)
Terascale 2 (2009−2015)
GPU code name
Jet / Sun
Seymour XT
Market segment
Laptop
Laptop
Release date
January 2014
January 2011
Bus support
PCIe 3.0 x8
-
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x8
PCIe 2.0 x16
Boost clock speed
855 MHz
-
Compute units
5
-
Core clock speed
855 MHz
700 / 750 / 800 MHz
Floating-point performance
547.2 gflops
256 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
40 nm
Number of transistors
690 million
370 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
320
160
Power consumption (TDP)
unknown
-
Texture fill rate
17.10
6.400
Memory type
DDR3
DDR3/GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
512 MB
Memory bus width
64 Bit
64 Bit
Memory clock speed
1000 MHz
800 MHz
Memory bandwidth
16 GB/s
25.6 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
No outputs
No outputs
Eyefinity
+
-
DirectX
DirectX® 11
11.2 (11_0)
Mantle
+
-
OpenCL
Not Listed
1.2
OpenGL
4.4
4.4
Shader Model
5.1
5.0
Vulkan
-
N/A
AppAcceleration
+
-
DualGraphics
1
-
Enduro
-
-
HD3D
+
-
PowerTune
+
-
Switchable graphics
1
-
TrueAudio
-
-
ZeroCore
+
-