AMD Radeon HD 6490 vs AMD Radeon RX 560D

VS

AMD Radeon HD 6490

AMD Radeon RX 560D

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6490 and 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 560D 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 65W)

AMD Radeon RX 560D 's Advantages

Released 6 years late

Boost Clock1175MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (96.00GB/s vs 16.00GB/s)

576 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6490

0.352 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 560D +498%

2.106 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6490

VS

Radeon RX 560D

Graphics Card

Jul 2011

Release Date

Jul 2017

Northern Islands

Generation

Polaris

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1090 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1175 MHz

500 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

4GB

DDR2

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

16.00GB/s

Bandwidth

96.00GB/s

Render Config

4

Compute Units

14

-

320

Shading Units

896

16

TMUs

56

8

ROPs

16

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

4.400 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

18.80 GPixel/s

8.800 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

65.80 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

2.106 TFLOPS

352.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.106 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

131.6 GFLOPS

Board Design

39W

TDP

65W

200 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x VGA

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0b 1x DisplayPort 1.4a

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Redwood

GPU Name

Polaris 21

Redwood LE

GPU Variant

Polaris 21 XL

TeraScale 2

Architecture

GCN 4.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

40 nm

Process Size

14 nm

0.627 billion

Transistors

3 billion

104 mm²

Die Size

123 mm²

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.4

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

2.1

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

-

5.0

Shader Model

6.4

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