AMD Radeon HD 6490 vs ATI Radeon X1950 PRO DUAL

VS

AMD Radeon HD 6490

ATI Radeon X1950 PRO DUAL

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6490 and 512MB VRAM Radeon X1950 PRO DUAL to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 6490 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 6 months late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)

320 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (39W vs 130W)

ATI Radeon X1950 PRO DUAL 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (44.16GB/s vs 16.00GB/s)

Score

Radeon HD 6490

VS

Radeon X1950 PRO DUAL

Graphics Card

Jul 2011

Release Date

Jan 2007

Northern Islands

Generation

Radeon R500 PCIe

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

500 MHz

Memory Clock

690 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

512MB

DDR2

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

16.00GB/s

Bandwidth

44.16GB/s

Render Config

4

Compute Units

-

320

Shading Units

-

16

TMUs

12

8

ROPs

12

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

256 KB

L2 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

4.400 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

6.900 GPixel/s

8.800 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

6.900 GTexel/s

-

352.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

-

Board Design

39W

TDP

130W

200 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x VGA

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Redwood

GPU Name

RV570

Redwood LE

GPU Variant

RV570 XT (215PADAKA12FG)

TeraScale 2

Architecture

R500

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

80 nm

0.627 billion

Transistors

0.33 billion

104 mm²

Die Size

230 mm²

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

9.0c (9_3)

4.4

OpenGL

2.1 (full) 3.0 (partial)

1.2

OpenCL

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

5.0

Shader Model

3.0

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