AMD Radeon HD 8490 OEM vs AMD Radeon Sky 500

VS

AMD Radeon HD 8490 OEM AMD Radeon Sky 500

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 8490 OEM and 4GB VRAM Radeon Sky 500 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 150W)

AMD Radeon Sky 500 's Advantages

More VRAM (4GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (153.6GB/s vs 14.40GB/s)

1120 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 8490 OEM

0.28 TFLOPS

Radeon Sky 500 +768%

2.432 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8490 OEM

VS

Radeon Sky 500

Graphics Card

Jul 2013

Release Date

Mar 2013

Sea Islands

Generation

Radeon Sky

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

900 MHz

Memory Clock

1200 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

4GB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

64bit

Memory Bus

256bit

14.40GB/s

Bandwidth

153.6GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

2

Compute Units

20

160

Shading Units

1280

8

TMUs

80

4

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

128 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

3.500 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

30.40 GPixel/s

7.000 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

76.00 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

280.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.432 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

152.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Caicos

GPU Name

Pitcairn

Caicos XTX

GPU Variant

Pitcairn XT GL (215-0828073)

TeraScale 2

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.37 billion

Transistors

2.8 billion

67 mm²

Die Size

212 mm²

Board Design

35W

TDP

150W

200 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x DVI 1x DisplayPort 1.1

Outputs

1x DisplayPort 1.2

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.4

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

-

CUDA

-

5.0

Shader Model

5.1

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