AMD Radeon HD 6490 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X

VS

AMD Radeon HD 6490

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6490 and 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X 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 150W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock1683MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.3GB/s vs 16.00GB/s)

1600 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6490

0.352 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X +1736%

6.463 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6490

VS

GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X

Graphics Card

Jul 2011

Release Date

Dec 2018

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

1683 MHz

500 MHz

Memory Clock

1001 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

8GB

DDR2

Memory Type

GDDR5X

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

16.00GB/s

Bandwidth

256.3GB/s

Render Config

4

Compute Units

-

SM Count

15

320

Shading Units

1920

16

TMUs

120

8

ROPs

64

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SM)

256 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

4.400 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

107.7 GPixel/s

8.800 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

202.0 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

101.0 GFLOPS

352.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

6.463 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

202.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

39W

TDP

150W

200 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x VGA

Outputs

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

None

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Redwood

GPU Name

GP104

Redwood LE

GPU Variant

GP104-200-A1

TeraScale 2

Architecture

Pascal

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

16 nm

0.627 billion

Transistors

7.2 billion

104 mm²

Die Size

314 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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