GeForce GT 710 vs Radeon HD 6490

GeForce GT 710
Memory: 2048Mb DDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 27 Mar 2014
GeForce GT 710
Radeon HD 6490
Memory: 1024Mb DDR2DESKTOP
Release date: 4 Jul 2011
Radeon HD 6490

Summary

Reasons to consider GeForce GT 710

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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Kepler), there are less performance optimizations for current games and applications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

Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

No clear winner declared

We have no data to declare a winner at this time.


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GT 710Radeon HD 6490
GPU NameGK208 ()vsRedwood (Redwood LE)
Fab Process28 nmvs40 nm
Die Size87 mm²vs104 mm²
Transistorsunknownvs627 million
Shaders192vs320
Compute Units1vs4
Core clock954 MHzvs550 MHz
ROPs8vs8
TMUs16vs16

Memory Configuration

GeForce GT 710Radeon HD 6490
Memory TypeDDR3vsDDR2
Bus Width64 bitvs128 bit
Memory Speed900 MHz
1800 MHz effective
vs500 MHz
1000 MHz effective
Memory Size2048 Mbvs1024 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GT 710Radeon HD 6490
TDP19 wattsvs39 watts
Release Date27 Mar 2014vs4 Jul 2011

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GT 710
    3.82 GP/s
  • Radeon HD 6490
    4.40 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GT 710
    15.26 GT/s
  • Radeon HD 6490
    8.80 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GT 710
    14.40 GB/s
  • Radeon HD 6490
    16.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GT 710
    366.30 GFLOPs
  • Radeon HD 6490
    352.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better