AMD Radeon HD 6490 vs NVIDIA GeForce 505 OEM

VS

AMD Radeon HD 6490

NVIDIA GeForce 505 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6490 and 512MB VRAM GeForce 505 OEM to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 6490 's Advantages

More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (16.00GB/s vs 9.600GB/s)

304 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 505 OEM 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 6 months late

Lower TDP (25W vs 39W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6490 +682%

0.352 TFLOPS

GeForce 505 OEM

0.045 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6490

VS

GeForce 505 OEM

Graphics Card

Jul 2011

Release Date

Jan 2013

Northern Islands

Generation

GeForce 500

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

500 MHz

Memory Clock

600 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

512MB

DDR2

Memory Type

DDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

64bit

16.00GB/s

Bandwidth

9.600GB/s

Render Config

4

Compute Units

-

SM Count

2

320

Shading Units

16

TMUs

8

ROPs

4

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

256 KB

L2 Cache

32 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

4.400 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.356 GPixel/s

8.800 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

4.712 GTexel/s

-

352.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

44.86 GFLOPS

-

Board Design

39W

TDP

25W

200 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x VGA

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1x VGA

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Redwood

GPU Name

GT218

Redwood LE

GPU Variant

GT218-300-B1

TeraScale 2

Architecture

Tesla 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

40 nm

0.627 billion

Transistors

0.26 billion

104 mm²

Die Size

57 mm²

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

11.1 (10_1)

4.4

OpenGL

3.3

1.2

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

1.2

5.0

Shader Model

4.1

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