GeForce GT 1030 vs Radeon HD 6490

GeForce GT 1030
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 17 May 2017
GeForce GT 1030
Radeon HD 6490
Memory: 1024Mb DDR2DESKTOP
Release date: 4 Jul 2011
Radeon HD 6490

Summary

Reasons to consider GeForce GT 1030

This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications.
Supports PhysX
Supports G-Sync
Supports ShadowPlay (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Pascal), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider Radeon HD 6490

Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

GeForce GT 1030

HWBench recommends GeForce GT 1030

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GT 1030Radeon HD 6490
GPU NameGP108 (GP108-300-A1)vsRedwood (Redwood LE)
Fab Process14 nmvs40 nm
Die Size74 mm²vs104 mm²
Transistors1,800 millionvs627 million
Shaders384vs320
Compute Units3vs4
Core clock1228 MHzvs550 MHz
ROPs16vs8
TMUs24vs16

Memory Configuration

GeForce GT 1030Radeon HD 6490
Memory TypeGDDR5vsDDR2
Bus Width64 bitvs128 bit
Memory Speed1502 MHz
6008 MHz effective
vs500 MHz
1000 MHz effective
Memory Size2048 Mbvs1024 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GT 1030Radeon HD 6490
TDP30 wattsvs39 watts
Release Date17 May 2017vs4 Jul 2011

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GT 1030
    23.49 GP/s
  • Radeon HD 6490
    4.40 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GT 1030
    35.23 GT/s
  • Radeon HD 6490
    8.80 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GT 1030
    48.06 GB/s
  • Radeon HD 6490
    16.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GT 1030
    1127.00 GFLOPs
  • Radeon HD 6490
    352.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better