AMD Radeon HD 6490 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060

VS

AMD Radeon HD 6490

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6490 and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 5060 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 170W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 's Advantages

Released 13 years and 6 months late

Boost Clock2520MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (355.0GB/s vs 16.00GB/s)

4288 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6490

0.352 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 5060 +6496%

23.22 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6490

VS

GeForce RTX 5060

Graphics Card

Jul 2011

Release Date

Jan 2025

Northern Islands

Generation

GeForce 50

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 5.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

2235 MHz

-

Boost Clock

2520 MHz

500 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

8GB

DDR2

Memory Type

GDDR7

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

16.00GB/s

Bandwidth

355.0GB/s

Render Config

4

Compute Units

-

SM Count

36

320

Shading Units

4608

16

TMUs

144

8

ROPs

48

-

Tensor Cores

144

-

RT Cores

36

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

256 KB

L2 Cache

32 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

4.400 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

121.0 GPixel/s

8.800 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

362.9 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

23.22 TFLOPS

352.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

23.22 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

362.9 GFLOPS

Board Design

39W

TDP

170W

200 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x VGA

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.13x DisplayPort 1.4a

None

Power Connectors

1x 16-pin

Graphics Processor

Redwood

GPU Name

GB206

Redwood LE

GPU Variant

GB206

TeraScale 2

Architecture

Blackwell 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

0

0.627 billion

Transistors

Unknown

104 mm²

Die Size

Unknown

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

10.1

5.0

Shader Model

6.8

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