AMD Radeon HD 6490 videocard review

Radeon HD 6490 videocard released by AMD; release date: 4 July 2011. The videocard is designed for desktop-computers and based on TeraScale 2 microarchitecture codenamed Redwood.

Core clock speed - 550 MHz. Texture fill rate - 8.8 GTexel / s. Pipelines - 320. Floating-point performance - 352.0 gflops. Manufacturing process technology - 40 nm. Transistors count - 627 million. Power consumption (TDP) - 39 Watt.

Memory type: DDR2. Maximum RAM amount - 1 GB. Memory bus width - 128 Bit. Memory clock speed - 1000 MHz. Memory bandwidth - 16 GB / s.

Specifications (specs)

Essentials
Architecture	TeraScale 2
Code name	Redwood
Launch date	4 July 2011
Place in performance rating	not rated
Type	Desktop
Technical info
Core clock speed	550 MHz
Floating-point performance	352.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm
Pipelines	320
Texture fill rate	8.8 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	39 Watt
Transistor count	627 million

Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16
Length	165 mm
Supplementary power connectors	None
API support
DirectX	11.2 (11_0)
OpenGL	4.4
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	1 GB
Memory bandwidth	16 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	1000 MHz
Memory type	DDR2