GeForce GTX 490 vs Radeon HD 6750M

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking836not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency4.80no data
ArchitectureTeraScale 2 (2009−2015)Fermi (2010−2014)
GPU code nameWhistlerGF100
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date4 January 2011 (13 years ago)no data (2024 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 cores480480
Core clock speed600 MHz608 MHz
Number of transistors716 million3,100 million
Manufacturing process technology40 nm40 nm
Power consumption (TDP)35 Watt365 Watt
Texture fill rate14.4036.48
Floating-point processing power0.576 TFLOPS1.166 TFLOPS
ROPs848
TMUs2460

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).

Laptop sizemedium sizedno data
InterfaceMXM-A (3.0)PCIe 2.0 x16
Lengthno data279 mm
Widthno data2-slot
Supplementary power connectorsno data2x 8-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 typeGDDR3GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount1 GB1536 MB
Memory bus width128 Bit384 Bit
Memory clock speed800 MHz854 MHz
Memory bandwidth25.6 GB/s164.0 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 outputs3x DVI, 1x mini-DisplayPort

API compatibility

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

DirectX11.2 (11_0)12 (11_0)
Shader Model5.05.1
OpenGL4.44.6
OpenCL1.21.1
VulkanN/AN/A
CUDA-2.0

Pros & cons summary


Maximum RAM amount 1 GB 1536 MB
Power consumption (TDP) 35 Watt 365 Watt

HD 6750M has 942.9% lower power consumption.

GTX 490, on the other hand, has a 50% higher maximum VRAM amount.

We couldn't decide between Radeon HD 6750M and GeForce GTX 490. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon HD 6750M is a notebook card while GeForce GTX 490 is a desktop one.


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AMD Radeon HD 6750M
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