Radeon HD 3690 vs Radeon HD 6490
Summary
Reasons to consider Radeon HD 3690 |
| Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications. |
| Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications |
Reasons to consider Radeon HD 6490 |
| This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support. |
| Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications |
HWBench recommends Radeon HD 3690
Based on theoretical specifications.
Core Configuration
| Radeon HD 3690 | | Radeon HD 6490 | |
|---|
| GPU Name | RV670 (RV670 PRO) | vs | Redwood (Redwood LE) |
| Fab Process | 55 nm | vs | 40 nm |
| Die Size | 192 mm² | vs | 104 mm² |
| Transistors | 666 million | vs | 627 million |
| Shaders | 320 | vs | 320 |
| Compute Units | 4 | vs | 4 |
| Core clock | 670 MHz | vs | 550 MHz |
| ROPs | 16 | vs | 8 |
| TMUs | 16 | vs | 16 |
Memory Configuration
| Radeon HD 3690 | | Radeon HD 6490 | |
|---|
| Memory Type | GDDR3 | vs | DDR2 |
| Bus Width | 128 bit | vs | 128 bit |
| Memory Speed | 830 MHz
1660 MHz effective | vs | 500 MHz
1000 MHz effective |
| Memory Size | 256 Mb | vs | 1024 Mb |
Additional details
| Radeon HD 3690 | | Radeon HD 6490 | |
|---|
| TDP | 75 watts | vs | 39 watts |
| Release Date | 30 Mar 2008 | vs | 4 Jul 2011 |
Radeon HD 3690
10.70 GP/s
Radeon HD 6490
4.40 GP/s
GigaPixels - higher is better
Radeon HD 3690
10.70 GT/s
Radeon HD 6490
8.80 GT/s
GigaTexels - higher is better
Radeon HD 3690
26.60 GB/s
Radeon HD 6490
16.00 GB/s
GB/s - higher is better
Radeon HD 3690
428.80 GFLOPs
Radeon HD 6490
352.00 GFLOPs
GFLOPs - higher is better