NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 vs AMD Radeon HD 6490

VS

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060

AMD Radeon HD 6490

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce RTX 2060 and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6490 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 6 months late

Boost Clock1680MHz

More VRAM (6GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (336.0GB/s vs 16.00GB/s)

1600 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon HD 6490 's Advantages

Lower TDP (39W vs 160W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 2060 +1732%

6.451 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6490

0.352 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 2060

VS

Radeon HD 6490

Graphics Card

Jan 2019

Release Date

Jul 2011

GeForce 20

Generation

Northern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1365 MHz

Base Clock

-

1680 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

500 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR6

Memory Type

DDR2

192bit

Memory Bus

128bit

336.0GB/s

Bandwidth

16.00GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

4

30

SM Count

-

1920

Shading Units

320

120

TMUs

16

48

ROPs

8

240

Tensor Cores

-

30

RT Cores

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

3 MB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

80.64 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

4.400 GPixel/s

201.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

8.800 GTexel/s

12.90 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

6.451 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

352.0 GFLOPS

201.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

160W

TDP

39W

450 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 2x DisplayPort 1.4a 1x USB Type-C

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x VGA

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

TU106

GPU Name

Redwood

TU106-200A-KA-A1

GPU Variant

Redwood LE

Turing

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

12 nm

Process Size

40 nm

10.8 billion

Transistors

0.627 billion

445 mm²

Die Size

104 mm²

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.4

3.0

OpenCL

1.2

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

7.5

CUDA

-

6.6

Shader Model

5.0

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