AMD Radeon HD 6490 vs AMD FirePro D500

VS

AMD Radeon HD 6490

AMD FirePro D500

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6490 and 3GB VRAM FirePro D500 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 6490 's Advantages

Lower TDP (39W vs 274W)

AMD FirePro D500 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 6 months late

More VRAM (3GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (243.8GB/s vs 16.00GB/s)

1216 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6490

0.352 TFLOPS

FirePro D500 +532%

2.227 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6490

VS

FirePro D500

Graphics Card

Jul 2011

Release Date

Jan 2014

Northern Islands

Generation

FirePro

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

500 MHz

Memory Clock

1270 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

3GB

DDR2

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

384bit

16.00GB/s

Bandwidth

243.8GB/s

Render Config

4

Compute Units

24

-

320

Shading Units

1536

16

TMUs

96

8

ROPs

32

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

768 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

4.400 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

23.20 GPixel/s

8.800 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

69.60 GTexel/s

-

352.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.227 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

556.8 GFLOPS

Board Design

39W

TDP

274W

200 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x VGA

Outputs

6x mini-DisplayPort 1.2 1x SDI

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Processor

Redwood

GPU Name

Tahiti

Redwood LE

GPU Variant

Tahiti LE GL

TeraScale 2

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.627 billion

Transistors

4.313 billion

104 mm²

Die Size

352 mm²

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.4

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

-

5.0

Shader Model

5.1

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