AMD Radeon HD 6490 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 740 OEM

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AMD Radeon HD 6490

NVIDIA GeForce GT 740 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6490 and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 740 OEM 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 65W)

NVIDIA GeForce GT 740 OEM 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 9 months late

Larger VRAM bandwidth (80.19GB/s vs 16.00GB/s)

64 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6490

0.352 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 740 OEM +119%

0.773 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6490

VS

GeForce GT 740 OEM

Graphics Card

Jul 2011

Release Date

Apr 2015

Northern Islands

Generation

GeForce 700

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

500 MHz

Memory Clock

1253 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

1024MB

DDR2

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

16.00GB/s

Bandwidth

80.19GB/s

Render Config

4

Compute Units

-

320

Shading Units

384

16

TMUs

32

8

ROPs

16

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per SMX)

256 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

4.400 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

8.048 GPixel/s

8.800 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

32.19 GTexel/s

-

352.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

772.6 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

32.19 GFLOPS

Board Design

39W

TDP

65W

200 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x VGA

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Redwood

GPU Name

GK106

Redwood LE

GPU Variant

-

TeraScale 2

Architecture

Kepler

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.627 billion

Transistors

2.54 billion

104 mm²

Die Size

221 mm²

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.4

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

3.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.1

-

CUDA

3.0

5.0

Shader Model

5.1

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