
Radeon HD 6490 and GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB - video card comparison
Radeon HD 6490
GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB
Architecture
TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)
Ampere (2020−2022)
GPU code name
Redwood
GA107
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
July 2011
February 2024
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 4.0 x8
Supplementary power connectors
None
None
Boost clock speed
-
1470 MHz
Core clock speed
550 MHz
-
Floating-point performance
352.0 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
8 nm
Number of transistors
627 million
8,700 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
320
2304
Power consumption (TDP)
39 Watt
70 Watt
Texture fill rate
8.800
105.8
Memory type
DDR2
GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount
1 GB
6 GB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
96 Bit
Memory clock speed
1000 MHz
14 GB/s
Memory bandwidth
16 GB/s
168.0 GB/s
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA
1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a
HDMI
+
+
DirectX
11.2 (11_0)
12 Ultimate (12_2)
CUDA
-
8.6
OpenCL
1.2
3.0
OpenGL
4.4
4.6
Shader Model
5.0
6.7
Vulkan
N/A
1.3