GeForce GT 720 vs Radeon HD 6490

GeForce GT 720
Memory: 1024Mb DDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 29 Sep 2014
GeForce GT 720
Radeon HD 6490
Memory: 1024Mb DDR2DESKTOP
Release date: 4 Jul 2011
Radeon HD 6490

Summary

Reasons to consider GeForce GT 720

This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Supports PhysX
Supports G-Sync
Supports ShadowPlay (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Kepler), there are less performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider Radeon HD 6490

Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications.
Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Radeon HD 6490

HWBench recommends Radeon HD 6490

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GT 720Radeon HD 6490
GPU NameGK208 ()vsRedwood (Redwood LE)
Fab Process28 nmvs40 nm
Die Size87 mm²vs104 mm²
Transistorsunknownvs627 million
Shaders192vs320
Compute Units1vs4
Core clock797 MHzvs550 MHz
ROPs8vs8
TMUs16vs16

Memory Configuration

GeForce GT 720Radeon HD 6490
Memory TypeDDR3vsDDR2
Bus Width64 bitvs128 bit
Memory Speed800 MHz
1600 MHz effective
vs500 MHz
1000 MHz effective
Memory Size1024 Mbvs1024 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GT 720Radeon HD 6490
TDP19 wattsvs39 watts
Release Date29 Sep 2014vs4 Jul 2011

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GT 720
    3.19 GP/s
  • Radeon HD 6490
    4.40 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GT 720
    12.75 GT/s
  • Radeon HD 6490
    8.80 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GT 720
    12.80 GB/s
  • Radeon HD 6490
    16.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GT 720
    306.05 GFLOPs
  • Radeon HD 6490
    352.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better