AMD Radeon HD 6490 vs AMD Radeon HD 8950 OEM

VS

AMD Radeon HD 6490

AMD Radeon HD 8950 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6490 and 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 8950 OEM 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 200W)

AMD Radeon HD 8950 OEM 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 6 months late

Boost Clock925MHz

More VRAM (3GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (240.0GB/s vs 16.00GB/s)

1472 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6490

0.352 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8950 OEM +841%

3.315 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6490

VS

Radeon HD 8950 OEM

Graphics Card

Jul 2011

Release Date

Jan 2013

Northern Islands

Generation

Sea Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

850 MHz

-

Boost Clock

925 MHz

500 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

3GB

DDR2

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

384bit

16.00GB/s

Bandwidth

240.0GB/s

Render Config

4

Compute Units

28

-

320

Shading Units

1792

16

TMUs

112

8

ROPs

32

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

768 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

4.400 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

29.60 GPixel/s

8.800 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

103.6 GTexel/s

-

352.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.315 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

828.8 GFLOPS

Board Design

39W

TDP

200W

200 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x VGA

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

None

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Redwood

GPU Name

Tahiti

Redwood LE

GPU Variant

Tahiti PRO (215-0821056)

TeraScale 2

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.627 billion

Transistors

4.313 billion

104 mm²

Die Size

352 mm²

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.4

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

-

5.0

Shader Model

5.1

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