AMD Radeon HD 6490 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB 9Gbps

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AMD Radeon HD 6490

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB 9Gbps

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6490 and 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB 9Gbps 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 120W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB 9Gbps 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock1709MHz

More VRAM (6GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (216.7GB/s vs 16.00GB/s)

960 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6490

0.352 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB 9Gbps +1142%

4.375 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6490

VS

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB 9Gbps

Graphics Card

Jul 2011

Release Date

Apr 2017

Northern Islands

Generation

GeForce 10

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1506 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1709 MHz

500 MHz

Memory Clock

2257 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

6GB

DDR2

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

192bit

16.00GB/s

Bandwidth

216.7GB/s

Render Config

4

Compute Units

-

SM Count

10

320

Shading Units

1280

16

TMUs

80

8

ROPs

48

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SM)

256 KB

L2 Cache

1536 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

4.400 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

82.03 GPixel/s

8.800 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

136.7 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

68.36 GFLOPS

352.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.375 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

136.7 GFLOPS

Board Design

39W

TDP

120W

200 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x VGA

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Redwood

GPU Name

GP106

Redwood LE

GPU Variant

GP106-410-A1

TeraScale 2

Architecture

Pascal

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

16 nm

0.627 billion

Transistors

4.4 billion

104 mm²

Die Size

200 mm²

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.4

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

3.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

6.1

5.0

Shader Model

6.4

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