AMD Radeon HD 6490M vs NVIDIA Quadro FX 350M

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon HD 6490M and NVIDIA Quadro FX 350M videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 6490M

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 4 year(s) 9 month(s) later
  • Around 78% higher core clock speed: 800 MHz vs 450 MHz
  • 3.6x more texture fill rate: 6.4 GTexel / s vs 1.8 GTexel / s
  • 40x more pipelines: 160 vs 4
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 90 nm
  • 2x more maximum memory size: 512 MB vs 256 MB
  • 3.6x more memory clock speed: 3200 MHz vs 900 MHz
  • 8.4x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 378 vs 45
  • 3.9x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 514 vs 132
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 4 January 2011 vs 13 March 2006
Core clock speed 800 MHz vs 450 MHz
Texture fill rate 6.4 GTexel / s vs 1.8 GTexel / s
Pipelines 160 vs 4
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm vs 90 nm
Maximum memory size 512 MB vs 256 MB
Memory clock speed 3200 MHz vs 900 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 378 vs 45
PassMark - G2D Mark 514 vs 132

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon HD 6490M
GPU 2: NVIDIA Quadro FX 350M

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
378
45
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
514
132
Name AMD Radeon HD 6490M NVIDIA Quadro FX 350M
PassMark - G3D Mark 378 45
PassMark - G2D Mark 514 132
Geekbench - OpenCL 4866
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 2.554
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 96.344
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 0
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 6.001
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 10.814
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 1405
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 2543
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 1405
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 2543

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD Radeon HD 6490M NVIDIA Quadro FX 350M

Essentials

Architecture TeraScale 2 Curie
Code name Seymour G72
Launch date 4 January 2011 13 March 2006
Launch price (MSRP) $1,193.03
Place in performance rating 1188 1190
Price now $1,193.03
Type Laptop Mobile workstation
Value for money (0-100) 0.39

Technical info

Core clock speed 800 MHz 450 MHz
Floating-point performance 256 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm 90 nm
Pipelines 160 4
Texture fill rate 6.4 GTexel / s 1.8 GTexel / s
Transistor count 370 million 112 million
Boost clock speed 450 MHz
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 15 Watt

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors No outputs No outputs

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 2.0 x16 PCIe 1.0 x16

API support

DirectX 11.2 (11_0) 9.0c
OpenGL 4.4 2.1

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 512 MB 256 MB
Memory bandwidth 25.6 GB / s 14.4 GB / s
Memory bus width 64 Bit 350 Bit
Memory clock speed 3200 MHz 900 MHz
Memory type DDR3 / GDDR5 64
Shared memory 0 no

Technologies

CineFX 4.0
Intellisample 4.0
PowerMizer 6.0
UltraShadow II