Radeon HD 6490 and NV5 B5 - video card comparison

Radeon HD 6490

NV5 B5

Architecture

TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)

Fahrenheit (1998−2000)

GPU code name

Redwood

NV5 B5

Market segment

Desktop

Desktop

Release date

July 2011

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Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

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Supplementary power connectors

None

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Core clock speed

550 MHz

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Floating-point performance

352.0 gflops

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Manufacturing process technology

40 nm

250 nm

Number of transistors

627 million

15 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

320

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Power consumption (TDP)

39 Watt

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Texture fill rate

8.800

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Memory type

DDR2

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Maximum RAM amount

1 GB

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Memory bus width

128 Bit

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Memory clock speed

1000 MHz

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Memory bandwidth

16 GB/s

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Display Connectors

1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA

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HDMI

+

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DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

6.0

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

OpenGL

4.4

1.2

Shader Model

5.0

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Vulkan

N/A

N/A