Radeon HD 8490 OEM vs GeForce 610M

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Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the ranking1157not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency4.28no data
ArchitectureFermi 2.0 (2010−2014)TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)
GPU code nameGF119Caicos
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date1 December 2011 (13 years ago)23 July 2013 (11 years ago)

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores48160
Core clock speed738 MHz875 MHz
Boost clock speed900 MHzno data
Number of transistors292 million370 million
Manufacturing process technology40 nm40 nm
Power consumption (TDP)12 Watt35 Watt
Texture fill rate5.9047.000
Floating-point processing power0.1417 TFLOPS0.28 TFLOPS
Video decodersH.264, VC1, MPEG2 1080pno data
ROPs44
TMUs88

Form factor & compatibility

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

Bus supportPCI Express 2.0no data
InterfacePCIe 2.0 x16PCIe 2.0 x16
Lengthno data168 mm
Widthno data1-slot
Supplementary power connectorsno dataNone

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeDDR3DDR3
Maximum RAM amount1 GB1 GB
Memory bus width64bit64 Bit
Memory clock speed900 MHz900 MHz
Memory bandwidthUp to 14.4 GB/s14.4 GB/s
Shared memory-no data

Connectivity and outputs

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 ConnectorsNo outputs1x DVI, 1x DisplayPort
HDMI+-
Maximum VGA resolutionUp to 2048x1536no data

Supported technologies

Supported technological solutions. This information will prove useful if you need some particular technology for your purposes.

Optimus+-

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX12 API11.2 (11_0)
Shader Model5.15.0
OpenGL4.54.4
OpenCL1.11.2
VulkanN/AN/A
CUDA+-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 1 December 2011 23 July 2013
Power consumption (TDP) 12 Watt 35 Watt

GeForce 610M has 191.7% lower power consumption.

HD 8490 OEM, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 1 year.

We couldn't decide between GeForce 610M and Radeon HD 8490 OEM. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that GeForce 610M is a notebook card while Radeon HD 8490 OEM is a desktop one.


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