GeForce 320M Mac Edition vs Radeon E6460

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Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the ranking1138not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency2.34no data
ArchitectureTeraScale 2 (2009−2015)Tesla 2.0 (2007−2013)
GPU code nameCaicosC89
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date7 April 2011 (13 years ago)1 April 2010 (14 years ago)

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores16048
Core clock speed600 MHz450 MHz
Number of transistors370 million486 million
Manufacturing process technology40 nm40 nm
Power consumption (TDP)25 Watt23 Watt
Texture fill rate4.8007.200
Floating-point processing power0.192 TFLOPS0.0912 TFLOPS
ROPs48
TMUs816

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

InterfacePCIe 2.0 x16PCIe 2.0 x16

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeGDDR5System Shared
Maximum RAM amount512 MBSystem Shared
Memory bus width64 BitSystem Shared
Memory clock speed800 MHzSystem Shared
Memory bandwidth25.6 GB/sno data
Shared memory-+

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display ConnectorsNo outputsPortable Device Dependent

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX11.2 (11_0)11.1 (10_1)
Shader Model5.04.1
OpenGL4.43.3
OpenCL1.2N/A
VulkanN/AN/A

Pros & cons summary


Recency 7 April 2011 1 April 2010
Power consumption (TDP) 25 Watt 23 Watt

Radeon E6460 has an age advantage of 1 year.

320M Mac Edition, on the other hand, has 8.7% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon E6460 and GeForce 320M Mac Edition. We've got no test results to judge.


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