ATI Radeon HD 3470 vs AMD Radeon HD 6490

VS

ATI Radeon HD 3470

AMD Radeon HD 6490

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 256MB VRAM Radeon HD 3470 and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6490 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

ATI Radeon HD 3470 's Advantages

Lower TDP (30W vs 39W)

AMD Radeon HD 6490 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 6 months late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 256GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (16.00GB/s vs 15.20GB/s)

280 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 3470

0.064 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6490 +450%

0.352 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 3470

VS

Radeon HD 6490

Graphics Card

Jan 2008

Release Date

Jul 2011

Radeon R600

Generation

Northern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

950 MHz

Memory Clock

500 MHz

Memory

256MB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

DDR2

64bit

Memory Bus

128bit

15.20GB/s

Bandwidth

16.00GB/s

Render Config

2

Compute Units

4

-

40

Shading Units

320

4

TMUs

16

4

ROPs

8

-

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

64 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

3.200 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

4.400 GPixel/s

3.200 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

8.800 GTexel/s

-

64.00 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

352.0 GFLOPS

-

Board Design

30W

TDP

39W

200 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x VGA

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

RV620

GPU Name

Redwood

RV620 PRO (215-0670006)

GPU Variant

Redwood LE

TeraScale

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

55 nm

Process Size

40 nm

0.181 billion

Transistors

0.627 billion

67 mm²

Die Size

104 mm²

Graphics Features

10.1 (10_1)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

3.3

OpenGL

4.4

N/A

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

4.1

Shader Model

5.0

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