AMD Radeon HD 6490M vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile

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AMD Radeon HD 6490M NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 6490M and 6GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile 's Advantages

Released 10 years late

Boost Clock1425MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (336.0GB/s vs 25.60GB/s)

3680 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6490M

0.256 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile +4173%

10.94 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6490M

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GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile

Graphics Card

Jan 2011

Release Date

Jan 2021

Vancouver

Generation

GeForce 30 Mobile

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

900 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1425 MHz

800 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

64bit

Memory Bus

192bit

25.60GB/s

Bandwidth

336.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

30

2

Compute Units

-

160

Shading Units

3840

8

TMUs

120

4

ROPs

48

-

Tensor Cores

120

-

RT Cores

30

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

128 KB

L2 Cache

3 MB

Theoretical Performance

3.200 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

68.40 GPixel/s

6.400 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

171.0 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

10.94 TFLOPS

256.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

10.94 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

171.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Seymour

GPU Name

GA106

Seymour XTX S3 (216-0809024)

GPU Variant

-

TeraScale 2

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

40 nm

Process Size

8 nm

0.37 billion

Transistors

12 billion

67 mm²

Die Size

276 mm²

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

60-115W

-

Suggested PSU

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

-

Power Connectors

None

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

8.6

5.0

Shader Model

6.7

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