Radeon HD 6490 Overview

Radeon HD 6490
Memory: 1024Mb DDR2DESKTOP
Release date: 4 Jul 2011

Core Configuration

GPU	Redwood
Architecture	ATI_TeraScale
Shaders : TMUs : ROPs	320 : 16 : 8
Raytracing Cores	none
Performance	352.00 GFLOPs

Memory Configuration

Memory Size	1024 Mb
Memory Bus Width	128 bit
Memory Speed	500 MHz 1000 MHz effective
Memory Bandwidth	16.00 Gb/s

Summary

Relative performance

Radeon HD 3690
100%
Radeon HD 3830
99%
Radeon R7 Graphics IGP (APU A10-7700K)
99%
Radeon HD 5570
97%
Radeon HD 5630
97%
GeForce GT 545
96%
Radeon HD 8570D IGP
95%
Radeon R6 Graphics IGP
95%
Radeon HD 7560D IGP
90%
Radeon R6 Graphics IGP
90%
GeForce GTS 250
90%
Radeon HD 4720
89%
Radeon HD 4700
89%
Radeon HD 4650
89%
Radeon HD 6390
82%
Radeon HD 6490
82%
Radeon HD 5550
82%
GeForce 9800 GT
78%
GeForce GT 630
72%
GeForce GT 440
72%
Radeon HD 8470D IGP
71%
Radeon HD 7540D IGP
68%
Radeon HD 6530D IGP
66%
GeForce 9600 GTX
64%
GeForce GT 620
62%
GeForce GT 430
62%
GeForce 8800 GS
61%
GeForce GT 240
60%
Iris Pro Graphics 6200
53%
GeForce 9600 GT
48%

Data interpolated by architecture, based on benchmarks charts.

The Radeon HD 6490 is a graphics card released by AMD on 4 Jul 2011. The graphics card houses the Redwood die, based on the ATI_TeraScale architecture which packs 627 million transistors on a 40 nm, 104 mm2 die.

Radeon HD 6490 pros and cons

Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Specifications

Compared to similar performing cards


	Radeon HD 6490	Radeon HD 3690
		compare
Shader units	320	320
ROPs	8	16
Graphics processor	Redwood	RV670
Process size	40 nm	55 nm
Memory	1024 Mb DDR2 (500 MHz 1000 MHz effective)	256 Mb GDDR3 (830 MHz 1660 MHz effective)
Memory bus width	128 bit	128 bit
Memory bandwidth	16.00 Gb/s	26.60 Gb/s
Release date	4 Jul 2011	30 Mar 2008

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