AMD Radeon HD 6490 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB

VS

AMD Radeon HD 6490

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6490 and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB 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 130W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB 's Advantages

Released 10 years and 6 months late

Boost Clock1777MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.0GB/s vs 16.00GB/s)

2240 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6490

0.352 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB +2484%

9.098 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6490

VS

GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB

Graphics Card

Jul 2011

Release Date

Jan 2022

Northern Islands

Generation

GeForce 30

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x8

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1552 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1777 MHz

500 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

8GB

DDR2

Memory Type

GDDR6

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

16.00GB/s

Bandwidth

224.0GB/s

Render Config

4

Compute Units

-

SM Count

20

320

Shading Units

2560

16

TMUs

80

8

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

80

-

RT Cores

20

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

256 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

4.400 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

56.86 GPixel/s

8.800 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

142.2 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

9.098 TFLOPS

352.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

9.098 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

142.2 GFLOPS

Board Design

39W

TDP

130W

200 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x VGA

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

None

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Redwood

GPU Name

GA106

Redwood LE

GPU Variant

GA106-150-KA-A1

TeraScale 2

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

40 nm

Process Size

8 nm

0.627 billion

Transistors

12 billion

104 mm²

Die Size

276 mm²

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.4

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

3.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

8.6

5.0

Shader Model

6.6

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