Radeon HD 8490 OEM vs GeForce FX 5700

Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot ratednot rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureRankine (2003−2005)TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)
GPU code nameNV36Caicos
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date23 October 2003 (21 year 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 coresno data160
Core clock speed425 MHz875 MHz
Number of transistors82 million370 million
Manufacturing process technology130 nm40 nm
Power consumption (TDP)25 Watt35 Watt
Texture fill rate1.7007.000
Floating-point processing powerno data0.28 TFLOPS
ROPs44
TMUs48

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).

InterfaceAGP 8xPCIe 2.0 x16
Lengthno data168 mm
Width1-slot1-slot
Supplementary power connectorsNoneNone

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 typeDDRDDR3
Maximum RAM amount128 MB1 GB
Memory bus width256 Bit64 Bit
Memory clock speed250 MHz900 MHz
Memory bandwidth16 GB/s14.4 GB/s

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 Connectors1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video1x DVI, 1x DisplayPort

API compatibility

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

DirectX9.0a11.2 (11_0)
Shader Modelno data5.0
OpenGL1.5 (2.1)4.4
OpenCLN/A1.2
VulkanN/AN/A

Pros & cons summary


Recency 23 October 2003 23 July 2013
Maximum RAM amount 128 MB 1 GB
Chip lithography 130 nm 40 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 25 Watt 35 Watt

FX 5700 has 40% lower power consumption.

HD 8490 OEM, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 9 years, a 700% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 225% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between GeForce FX 5700 and Radeon HD 8490 OEM. We've got no test results to judge.


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NVIDIA GeForce FX 5700
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