AMD Radeon HD 6490 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP

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AMD Radeon HD 6490

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6490 and 6GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP 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 185W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP 's Advantages

Released 9 years and 6 months late

Boost Clock1852MHz

More VRAM (6GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (336.0GB/s vs 16.00GB/s)

3520 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6490

0.352 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP +3939%

14.22 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6490

VS

GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP

Graphics Card

Jul 2011

Release Date

Jan 2021

Northern Islands

Generation

GeForce 30

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1627 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1852 MHz

500 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

6GB

DDR2

Memory Type

GDDR6

128bit

Memory Bus

192bit

16.00GB/s

Bandwidth

336.0GB/s

Render Config

4

Compute Units

-

SM Count

30

320

Shading Units

3840

16

TMUs

120

8

ROPs

48

-

Tensor Cores

120

-

RT Cores

30

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

256 KB

L2 Cache

3 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

4.400 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

88.90 GPixel/s

8.800 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

222.2 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

14.22 TFLOPS

352.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

14.22 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

222.2 GFLOPS

Board Design

39W

TDP

185W

200 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x VGA

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

None

Power Connectors

1x 12-pin

Graphics Processor

Redwood

GPU Name

GA106

Redwood LE

GPU Variant

GA106-400-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

6.7

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