AMD Radeon HD 6490 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 OEM

VS

AMD Radeon HD 6490

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6490 and 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 960 OEM to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 OEM 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock1201MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (112.2GB/s vs 16.00GB/s)

704 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6490

0.352 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 960 OEM +598%

2.46 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6490

VS

GeForce GTX 960 OEM

Graphics Card

Jul 2011

Release Date

Nov 2015

Northern Islands

Generation

GeForce 900

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1176 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1201 MHz

500 MHz

Memory Clock

1753 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

4GB

DDR2

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

16.00GB/s

Bandwidth

112.2GB/s

Render Config

4

Compute Units

-

320

Shading Units

1024

16

TMUs

64

8

ROPs

32

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

256 KB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

4.400 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

38.43 GPixel/s

8.800 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

76.86 GTexel/s

-

352.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.460 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

76.86 GFLOPS

Board Design

39W

TDP

Unknown

200 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x VGA

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Redwood

GPU Name

GM206

Redwood LE

GPU Variant

GTX 960 OEM

TeraScale 2

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.627 billion

Transistors

2.94 billion

104 mm²

Die Size

228 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

5.2

5.0

Shader Model

6.7

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