AMD Radeon HD 6490 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 430 OEM

VS

AMD Radeon HD 6490

NVIDIA GeForce GT 430 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6490 and 2GB VRAM GeForce GT 430 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 9 months late

224 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (39W vs 49W)

NVIDIA GeForce GT 430 OEM 's Advantages

More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (25.60GB/s vs 16.00GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6490 +30%

0.352 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 430 OEM

0.269 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6490

VS

GeForce GT 430 OEM

Graphics Card

Jul 2011

Release Date

Oct 2010

Northern Islands

Generation

GeForce 400

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

500 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

2GB

DDR2

Memory Type

DDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

16.00GB/s

Bandwidth

25.60GB/s

Render Config

4

Compute Units

-

SM Count

2

320

Shading Units

96

16

TMUs

16

8

ROPs

4

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

256 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

4.400 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.800 GPixel/s

8.800 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

11.20 GTexel/s

-

352.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

268.8 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

22.40 GFLOPS

Board Design

39W

TDP

49W

200 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x VGA

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x VGA

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Redwood

GPU Name

GF108

Redwood LE

GPU Variant

GF108-400-A1

TeraScale 2

Architecture

Fermi

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

40 nm

0.627 billion

Transistors

0.585 billion

104 mm²

Die Size

116 mm²

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.4

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

2.1

5.0

Shader Model

5.1

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