NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 vs AMD Radeon HD 6490

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 AMD Radeon HD 6490

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 2070 and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6490 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070's Advantages

Released 7 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock 1620MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (448.0GB/s vs 16.00GB/s)

1984 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon HD 6490's Advantages

Lower TDP (39W vs 175W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 2070 +2020%

7.465 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6490

0.352 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 2070

VS

Radeon HD 6490

Graphics Card

Oct 2018

Release Date

Jul 2011

GeForce 20

Generation

Northern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1410MHz

Base Clock

-

1620MHz

Boost Clock

-

1750MHz

Memory Clock

500MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR6

Memory Type

DDR2

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

448.0 GB/s

Bandwidth

16.00 GB/s

Render Config

36

SM Count

-

Compute Units

4

2304

Shading Units

320

144

TMUs

16

64

ROPs

8

288

Tensor Cores

-

36

RT Cores

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

4MB

L2 Cache

256KB

Theoretical Performance

103.7 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

4.400 GPixel/s

233.3 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

8.800 GTexel/s

14.93 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

7.465 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

352.0 GFLOPS

233.3 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

TU106

GPU Name

Redwood

TU106-400A-A1

GPU Variant

Redwood LE

Turing

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

12 nm

Process Size

40 nm

10,800 million

Transistors

627 million

445mm²

Die Size

104mm²

Board Design

175W

TDP

39W

450W

Suggested PSU

200W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 2x DisplayPort 1.4a 1x USB Type-C

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x VGA

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.4

3.0

OpenCL

1.2

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

7.5

CUDA

-

6.6

Shader Model

5.0

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