GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X vs Radeon HD 6490M

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking1112not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation0.01no data
ArchitectureTeraScale 2 (2009−2015)Ampere (2020−2024)
GPU code nameSeymourGA104
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date4 January 2011 (13 years ago)19 October 2022 (2 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$1,193.03 no data

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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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 cores1604864
Core clock speed800 MHz1410 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1665 MHz
Number of transistors370 million17,400 million
Manufacturing process technology40 nm8 nm
Power consumption (TDP)no data225 Watt
Texture fill rate6.400253.1
Floating-point processing power0.256 TFLOPS16.2 TFLOPS
ROPs480
TMUs8152
Tensor Coresno data152
Ray Tracing Coresno data38

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 2.0 x16PCIe 4.0 x16
Lengthno data242 mm
Widthno data2-slot
Supplementary power connectorsno data1x 12-pin

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 typeGDDR5GDDR6X
Maximum RAM amount512 MB8 GB
Memory bus width64 Bit256 Bit
Memory clock speed800 MHz1188 MHz
Memory bandwidth25.6 GB/s608.3 GB/s
Shared memory--

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 HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a
HDMI-+

API compatibility

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

DirectX11.2 (11_0)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model5.06.7
OpenGL4.44.6
OpenCL1.23.0
VulkanN/A1.3
CUDA-8.6

Pros & cons summary


Recency 4 January 2011 19 October 2022
Maximum RAM amount 512 MB 8 GB
Chip lithography 40 nm 8 nm

RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X has an age advantage of 11 years, a 1500% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 400% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon HD 6490M and GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon HD 6490M is a notebook card while GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X is a desktop one.


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