NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB vs AMD Radeon HD 6490

VS

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB

AMD Radeon HD 6490

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB 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 3060 8 GB 's Advantages

Released 11 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock1777MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (240.0GB/s vs 16.00GB/s)

3264 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon HD 6490 's Advantages

Lower TDP (39W vs 170W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB +3519%

12.74 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6490

0.352 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB

VS

Radeon HD 6490

Graphics Card

Oct 2022

Release Date

Jul 2011

GeForce 30

Generation

Northern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1320 MHz

Base Clock

-

1777 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1875 MHz

Memory Clock

500 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR6

Memory Type

DDR2

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

240.0GB/s

Bandwidth

16.00GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

4

28

SM Count

-

3584

Shading Units

320

112

TMUs

16

48

ROPs

8

112

Tensor Cores

-

28

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

3 MB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

85.30 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

4.400 GPixel/s

199.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

8.800 GTexel/s

12.74 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

12.74 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

352.0 GFLOPS

199.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

170W

TDP

39W

450 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x VGA

1x 12-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GA106

GPU Name

Redwood

GA106-302-A1

GPU Variant

Redwood LE

Ampere

Architecture

TeraScale 2

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

40 nm

12 billion

Transistors

0.627 billion

276 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

8.6

CUDA

-

6.6

Shader Model

5.0

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