GeForce GT 720M vs Radeon HD 6490M
Summary
Reasons to consider GeForce GT 720M |
| This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support. |
| Supports PhysX |
| Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Fermi), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications |
Reasons to consider Radeon HD 6490M |
| Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications. |
| Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications |
HWBench recommends Radeon HD 6490M
Based on theoretical specifications.
Core Configuration
| GeForce GT 720M | | Radeon HD 6490M | |
|---|
| GPU Name | GF117 (N14M-GE) | vs | Seymour (Seymour XTX) |
| Fab Process | 28 nm | vs | 40 nm |
| Die Size | 116 mm² | vs | 67 mm² |
| Transistors | 585 million | vs | 370 million |
| Shaders | 96 | vs | 160 |
| Compute Units | 2 | vs | 2 |
| Core clock | 625 MHz | vs | 800 MHz |
| ROPs | 8 | vs | 4 |
| TMUs | 16 | vs | 8 |
Memory Configuration
| GeForce GT 720M | | Radeon HD 6490M | |
|---|
| Memory Type | DDR3 | vs | GDDR5 |
| Bus Width | 64 bit | vs | 64 bit |
| Memory Speed | 800 MHz
1600 MHz effective | vs | 800 MHz
3200 MHz effective |
| Memory Size | 2048 Mb | vs | 512 Mb |
Additional details
| GeForce GT 720M | | Radeon HD 6490M | |
|---|
| TDP | 33 watts | vs | 0 watts |
| Release Date | 1 Apr 2013 | vs | 4 Jan 2011 |
GeForce GT 720M
2.50 GP/s
Radeon HD 6490M
3.20 GP/s
GigaPixels - higher is better
GeForce GT 720M
10.00 GT/s
Radeon HD 6490M
6.40 GT/s
GigaTexels - higher is better
GeForce GT 720M
12.80 GB/s
Radeon HD 6490M
25.60 GB/s
GB/s - higher is better
GeForce GT 720M
240.00 GFLOPs
Radeon HD 6490M
256.00 GFLOPs
GFLOPs - higher is better