AMD Radeon HD 6490 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 120 OEM

VS

AMD Radeon HD 6490

NVIDIA GeForce GT 120 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6490 and 512MB VRAM GeForce GT 120 OEM 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 4 months late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)

288 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (39W vs 50W)

NVIDIA GeForce GT 120 OEM 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (16.13GB/s vs 16.00GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6490 +198%

0.352 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 120 OEM

0.118 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6490

VS

GeForce GT 120 OEM

Graphics Card

Jul 2011

Release Date

Mar 2009

Northern Islands

Generation

GeForce 100

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

500 MHz

Memory Clock

504 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

512MB

DDR2

Memory Type

DDR2

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

16.00GB/s

Bandwidth

16.13GB/s

Render Config

4

Compute Units

-

SM Count

4

320

Shading Units

32

16

TMUs

16

8

ROPs

8

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

256 KB

L2 Cache

32 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

4.400 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

5.904 GPixel/s

8.800 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

11.81 GTexel/s

-

352.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

117.5 GFLOPS

-

Board Design

39W

TDP

50W

200 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x VGA

Outputs

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Redwood

GPU Name

G96C

Redwood LE

GPU Variant

-

TeraScale 2

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

55 nm

0.627 billion

Transistors

0.314 billion

104 mm²

Die Size

121 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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