Graphics card comparison
GeForce GT 710 vs Radeon HD 6490
Nvidia
GeForce GT 710
2048 Mb DDR3
Released 27 Mar 2014
DESKTOP
VS
AMD
Radeon HD 6490
1024 Mb DDR2
Released 4 Jul 2011
DESKTOP
Summary
Reasons to consider the 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- Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Kepler), there are less performance optimizations for current games and applications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 the Radeon HD 6490
- Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications
Our verdict
No clear winner declared
We have no data to declare a winner at this time.
Specifications
Core configuration
| GeForce GT 710 | Radeon HD 6490 |
|---|
| GPU Name | GK208 () | Redwood (Redwood LE) |
| Fab Process | 28 nm | 40 nm |
| Die Size | 87 mm² | 104 mm² |
| Transistors | unknown | 627 million |
| Shaders | 192 | 320 |
| Compute Units | 1 | 4 |
| Core clock | 954 MHz | 550 MHz |
| ROPs | 8 | 8 |
| TMUs | 16 | 16 |
Memory configuration
| GeForce GT 710 | Radeon HD 6490 |
|---|
| Memory Type | DDR3 | DDR2 |
| Bus Width | 64 bit | 128 bit |
| Memory Speed | 900 MHz
1800 MHz effective | 500 MHz
1000 MHz effective |
| Memory Size | 2048 Mb | 1024 Mb |
Additional details
| GeForce GT 710 | Radeon HD 6490 |
|---|
| TDP | 19 watts | 39 watts |
| Release Date | 27 Mar 2014 | 4 Jul 2011 |
Raw performance comparison
Pixel Rate
- GeForce GT 7103.82 GP/s
- Radeon HD 64904.40 GP/s
GigaPixels - higher is better
Texel Rate
- GeForce GT 71015.26 GT/s
- Radeon HD 64908.80 GT/s
GigaTexels - higher is better
Memory bandwidth
- GeForce GT 71014.40 GB/s
- Radeon HD 649016.00 GB/s
GB/s - higher is better
Single precision performance
- GeForce GT 710366.30 GFLOPs
- Radeon HD 6490352.00 GFLOPs
GFLOPs - higher is better