Quadro RTX A6000 vs Radeon HD 8490 OEM

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Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated37
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluationno data10.31
Power efficiencyno data14.11
ArchitectureTeraScale 2 (2009−2015)Ampere (2020−2024)
GPU code nameCaicosGA102
Market segmentDesktopWorkstation
Release date23 July 2013 (11 years ago)5 October 2020 (4 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)no data$4,649

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 cores16010752
Core clock speed875 MHz1410 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1800 MHz
Number of transistors370 million28,300 million
Manufacturing process technology40 nm8 nm
Power consumption (TDP)35 Watt300 Watt
Texture fill rate7.000604.8
Floating-point processing power0.28 TFLOPS38.71 TFLOPS
ROPs4112
TMUs8336
Tensor Coresno data336
Ray Tracing Coresno data84

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
Length168 mm267 mm
Width1-slot2-slot
Supplementary power connectorsNone8-pin EPS

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 typeDDR3GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount1 GB48 GB
Memory bus width64 Bit384 Bit
Memory clock speed900 MHz2000 MHz
Memory bandwidth14.4 GB/s768.0 GB/s
Shared memoryno data-

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 Connectors1x DVI, 1x DisplayPort4x DisplayPort 1.4a

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 23 July 2013 5 October 2020
Maximum RAM amount 1 GB 48 GB
Chip lithography 40 nm 8 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 35 Watt 300 Watt

HD 8490 OEM has 757.1% lower power consumption.

RTX A6000, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 7 years, a 4700% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 400% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon HD 8490 OEM and Quadro RTX A6000. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon HD 8490 OEM is a desktop card while Quadro RTX A6000 is a workstation one.


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