Radeon HD 8490 OEM vs GeForce GTX 295
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 8490 OEM and 896MB VRAM GeForce GTX 295 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Radeon HD 8490 OEM 's Advantages
Released 4 years and 6 months late
More VRAM (1024GB vs 896GB)
Lower TDP (35W vs 289W)
GeForce GTX 295 's Advantages
Larger VRAM bandwidth (111.9GB/s vs 14.40GB/s)
80 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon HD 8490 OEM
280
GeForce GTX 295
+112%
596
Graphics Card
Jul 2013
Release Date
Jan 2009
Sea Islands
Generation
GeForce 200
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
900 MHz
Memory Clock
999 MHz
Memory
1024MB
Memory Size
896MB
DDR3
Memory Type
GDDR3
64bit
Memory Bus
448bit
14.40GB/s
Bandwidth
111.9GB/s
Render Config
2
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
30
160
Shading Units
240
8
TMUs
80
4
ROPs
28
8 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
-
128 KB
L2 Cache
224 KB
Theoretical Performance
3.500 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
16.13 GPixel/s
7.000 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
46.08 GTexel/s
280.0 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
596.2 GFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
74.52 GFLOPS
Board Design
35W
TDP
289W
200 W
Suggested PSU
600 W
1x DVI
1x DisplayPort 1.1
Outputs
2x DVI
1x HDMI
None
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
Caicos
GPU Name
GT200B
Caicos XTX
GPU Variant
G200-401-B3
TeraScale 2
Architecture
Tesla 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
40 nm
Process Size
55 nm
0.37 billion
Transistors
1.4 billion
67 mm²
Die Size
470 mm²
Graphics Features
11.2 (11_0)
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
4.4
OpenGL
3.3
1.2
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
-
CUDA
1.3
5.0
Shader Model
4.0
