GeForce GT 720 vs 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| Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Kepler), there are less performance optimizations for current games and applications |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| Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications |
HWBench recommends Radeon HD 6490
Based on theoretical specifications.
Core Configuration
| GeForce GT 720 | | Radeon HD 6490 | |
|---|
| GPU Name | GK208 () | vs | Redwood (Redwood LE) |
| Fab Process | 28 nm | vs | 40 nm |
| Die Size | 87 mm² | vs | 104 mm² |
| Transistors | unknown | vs | 627 million |
| Shaders | 192 | vs | 320 |
| Compute Units | 1 | vs | 4 |
| Core clock | 797 MHz | vs | 550 MHz |
| ROPs | 8 | vs | 8 |
| TMUs | 16 | vs | 16 |
Memory Configuration
| GeForce GT 720 | | Radeon HD 6490 | |
|---|
| Memory Type | DDR3 | vs | DDR2 |
| Bus Width | 64 bit | vs | 128 bit |
| Memory Speed | 800 MHz
1600 MHz effective | vs | 500 MHz
1000 MHz effective |
| Memory Size | 1024 Mb | vs | 1024 Mb |
Additional details
| GeForce GT 720 | | Radeon HD 6490 | |
|---|
| TDP | 19 watts | vs | 39 watts |
| Release Date | 29 Sep 2014 | vs | 4 Jul 2011 |
GeForce GT 720
3.19 GP/s
Radeon HD 6490
4.40 GP/s
GigaPixels - higher is better
GeForce GT 720
12.75 GT/s
Radeon HD 6490
8.80 GT/s
GigaTexels - higher is better
GeForce GT 720
12.80 GB/s
Radeon HD 6490
16.00 GB/s
GB/s - higher is better
GeForce GT 720
306.05 GFLOPs
Radeon HD 6490
352.00 GFLOPs
GFLOPs - higher is better