Radeon HD 6490 vs GeForce RTX 2060 Max-Q Refresh

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Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the rankingnot ratednot rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureTuring (2018−2022)TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)
GPU code nameTU106BRedwood
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date29 January 2019 (5 years ago)4 July 2011 (13 years ago)

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores1920320
Core clock speed960 MHz550 MHz
Boost clock speed1200 MHzno data
Number of transistors10,800 million627 million
Manufacturing process technology12 nm40 nm
Power consumption (TDP)115 Watt39 Watt
Texture fill rate144.08.800
Floating-point processing power4.608 TFLOPS0.352 TFLOPS
ROPs488
TMUs12016
Tensor Cores240no data
Ray Tracing Cores30no data

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

InterfacePCIe 3.0 x16PCIe 2.0 x16
Lengthno data165 mm
Widthno data1-slot
Supplementary power connectorsNoneNone

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeGDDR6DDR2
Maximum RAM amount6 GB1 GB
Memory bus width192 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed1353 MHz500 MHz
Memory bandwidth259.8 GB/s16 GB/s

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display ConnectorsNo outputs1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA
HDMI-+

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX12 Ultimate (12_2)11.2 (11_0)
Shader Model6.55.0
OpenGL4.64.4
OpenCL1.21.2
Vulkan1.2.140N/A
CUDA7.5-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 29 January 2019 4 July 2011
Maximum RAM amount 6 GB 1 GB
Chip lithography 12 nm 40 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 115 Watt 39 Watt

RTX 2060 Max-Q Refresh has an age advantage of 7 years, a 500% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 233.3% more advanced lithography process.

HD 6490, on the other hand, has 194.9% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between GeForce RTX 2060 Max-Q Refresh and Radeon HD 6490. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that GeForce RTX 2060 Max-Q Refresh is a notebook card while Radeon HD 6490 is a desktop one.


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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 Max-Q Refresh
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