AMD Radeon HD 8490 OEM vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970

VS

AMD Radeon HD 8490 OEM

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 8490 OEM and 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 8490 OEM 's Advantages

Lower TDP (35W vs 148W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock1178MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.4GB/s vs 14.40GB/s)

1504 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 8490 OEM

0.28 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 970 +1300%

3.92 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8490 OEM

VS

GeForce GTX 970

Graphics Card

Jul 2013

Release Date

Sep 2014

Sea Islands

Generation

GeForce 900

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1050 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1178 MHz

900 MHz

Memory Clock

1753 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

4GB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

64bit

Memory Bus

256bit

14.40GB/s

Bandwidth

224.4GB/s

Render Config

2

Compute Units

-

160

Shading Units

1664

8

TMUs

104

4

ROPs

56

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

128 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

3.500 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

65.97 GPixel/s

7.000 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

122.5 GTexel/s

-

280.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.920 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

122.5 GFLOPS

Board Design

35W

TDP

148W

200 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

1x DVI 1x DisplayPort 1.1

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

None

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Caicos

GPU Name

GM204

Caicos XTX

GPU Variant

GM204-200-A1

TeraScale 2

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.37 billion

Transistors

5.2 billion

67 mm²

Die Size

398 mm²

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.4

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

3.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

5.2

5.0

Shader Model

6.4

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