AMD Radeon HD 6490 vs NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GTX

VS

AMD Radeon HD 6490

NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GTX

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6490 and 512MB VRAM GeForce 9600 GTX to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 6490 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 2 months late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)

224 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (39W vs 140W)

NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GTX 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (44.80GB/s vs 16.00GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6490 +26%

0.352 TFLOPS

GeForce 9600 GTX

0.278 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6490

VS

GeForce 9600 GTX

Graphics Card

Jul 2011

Release Date

May 2009

Northern Islands

Generation

GeForce 9

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

500 MHz

Memory Clock

700 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

512MB

DDR2

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

16.00GB/s

Bandwidth

44.80GB/s

Render Config

4

Compute Units

-

SM Count

12

320

Shading Units

96

16

TMUs

48

8

ROPs

16

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

256 KB

L2 Cache

64 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

4.400 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

9.280 GPixel/s

8.800 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

27.84 GTexel/s

-

352.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

278.4 GFLOPS

-

Board Design

39W

TDP

140W

200 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x VGA

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Redwood

GPU Name

G92

Redwood LE

GPU Variant

-

TeraScale 2

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

65 nm

0.627 billion

Transistors

0.754 billion

104 mm²

Die Size

324 mm²

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.4

OpenGL

3.3

1.2

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

1.1

5.0

Shader Model

4.0

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