AMD Radeon HD 6490: specs and benchmarks

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Summary

AMD started Radeon HD 6490 sales 4 July 2011. This is a desktop graphics card based on a TeraScale 2 architecture and made with 40 nm manufacturing process. It is primarily aimed at gamer market. 1 GB of DDR2 memory clocked at 0.5 GHz are supplied, and together with 128 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 16 GB/s.

Compatibility-wise, this is a single-slot graphics card attached via PCIe 2.0 x16 interface. Its manufacturer default version has a length of 165 mm. No additional power connector is required, and power consumption is at 39 Watt.

Primary details

Some basic facts about Radeon HD 6490: architecture, market segment, release date etc.

Place in the rankingnot rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100
ArchitectureTeraScale 2 (2009−2015)
GPU code nameRedwood
Market segmentDesktop
Release date4 July 2011 (13 years ago)

Detailed specifications

Radeon HD 6490's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of Radeon HD 6490's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.

Pipelines / CUDA cores320of 21760 (GeForce RTX 5090)
Core clock speed550 MHzof 2670 MHz (Arc B580)
Number of transistors627 millionof 208,000 million (B200 SXM 192 GB)
Manufacturing process technology40 nmof 3 nm (Arc Graphics 140V)
Power consumption (TDP)39 Wattof 2400 Watt (Data Center GPU Max Subsystem)
Texture fill rate8.800of 2,554 (Radeon Instinct MI300X)
Floating-point processing power0.352 TFLOPSof 109.7 (GeForce RTX 5090)
ROPs8of 192 (GRID A100A)
TMUs16of 1280 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT)

Form factor & compatibility

This section provides details about the physical dimensions of Radeon HD 6490 and its compatibility with other computer components. This information is useful when selecting a computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards, it includes details about the interface and bus (for motherboard compatibility) and additional power connectors (for power supply compatibility).

InterfacePCIe 2.0 x16
Length165 mm
Width1-slot
Supplementary power connectorsNone

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of memory installed on Radeon HD 6490: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that GPUs integrated into processors have no dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM instead.

Memory typeDDR2
Maximum RAM amount1 GBof 294912 (Radeon Instinct MI325X)
Memory bus width128 Bitof 8192 Bit (Radeon Instinct MI250X)
Memory clock speed500 MHzof 20000 (RTX 5000 Ada Generation Mobile)
Memory bandwidth16 GB/sof 5,171 GB/s (Radeon Instinct MI300X)

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on Radeon HD 6490. As a rule, this section is relevant only for desktop reference graphics cards, since for notebook ones the availability of certain video outputs depends on the laptop model, while non-reference desktop models can (though not necessarily will) bear a different set of video ports.

Display Connectors1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA
HDMI+

API compatibility

APIs supported by Radeon HD 6490, sometimes including their particular versions.

DirectX11.2 (11_0)
Shader Model5.0
OpenGL4.4of 4.6 (GeForce GTX 1080 Mobile)
OpenCL1.2
VulkanN/A

Benchmark performance

Synthetic benchmark performance of Radeon HD 6490. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.



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