AMD Radeon HD 8490 OEM vs NVIDIA Quadro RTX 6000

General info

Comparison of graphics card architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters.

Place in performance rating	not rated	22
Value for money	no data	3.38
Architecture	TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)	Turing (2018−2021)
GPU code name	Caicos	TU102
Market segment	Desktop	Workstation
Release date	23 July 2013 (8 years ago)	13 August 2018 (3 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)	no data	$6,299
Price now	$30	$6698 (1.1x MSRP)

Technical specs

General performance parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider their benchmark and gaming test results. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores	160	no data
Core clock speed	875 MHz	no data
Number of transistors	370 million	18,600 million
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	12 nm
Thermal design power (TDP)	35 Watt	no data
Texture fill rate	7.000	509.8
Floating-point performance	280.0 gflops	no data

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop video cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	PCIe 3.0 x16
Length	168 mm	267 mm
Width	1-slot	no data
Supplementary power connectors	None	no data

Memory

Parameters of memory installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that GPUs integrated into processors have no dedicated VRAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory type	DDR3	no data
Maximum RAM amount	1 GB	no data
Memory bus width	64 Bit	no data
Memory clock speed	1800 MHz	no data
Memory bandwidth	14.4 GB/s	no data

Video outputs and ports

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 Connectors

1x DVI, 1x DisplayPort

no data

API support

APIs supported, including particular versions of those APIs.

DirectX	11.2 (11_0)	no data
Shader Model	5.0	6.5
OpenGL	4.4	no data
OpenCL	1.2	no data
Vulkan	N/A	1.2.131
CUDA	no data	7.5

Advantages and disadvantages

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Novelty	23 July 2013	13 August 2018
Chip lithography	40 nm	12 nm

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