AMD Radeon HD 6490 vs AMD Radeon RX 570 X2

VS

AMD Radeon HD 6490

AMD Radeon RX 570 X2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6490 and 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 570 X2 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 180W)

AMD Radeon RX 570 X2 's Advantages

Boost Clock1206MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (268.8GB/s vs 16.00GB/s)

1728 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6490

0.352 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 570 X2 +1303%

4.94 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6490

VS

Radeon RX 570 X2

Graphics Card

Jul 2011

Release Date

Unknown

Northern Islands

Generation

Mining GPUs

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1120 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1206 MHz

500 MHz

Memory Clock

2100 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

8GB

DDR2

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

16.00GB/s

Bandwidth

268.8GB/s

Render Config

4

Compute Units

32

-

320

Shading Units

2048

16

TMUs

128

8

ROPs

32

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

4.400 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

38.59 GPixel/s

8.800 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

154.4 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

4.940 TFLOPS

352.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.940 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

308.7 GFLOPS

Board Design

39W

TDP

180W

200 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x VGA

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.0b

None

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Redwood

GPU Name

Polaris 20

Redwood LE

GPU Variant

Polaris 20 XL (215-0910052)

TeraScale 2

Architecture

GCN 4.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

40 nm

Process Size

14 nm

0.627 billion

Transistors

5.7 billion

104 mm²

Die Size

232 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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