Radeon HD 8490 OEM vs GeForce GTX 1660 Ti

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking160not rated
Place by popularity30not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation44.24no data
Power efficiency19.13no data
ArchitectureTuring (2018−2022)TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)
GPU code nameTU116Caicos
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date22 February 2019 (5 years ago)23 July 2013 (11 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$279 no data

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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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 cores1536160
Core clock speed1500 MHz875 MHz
Boost clock speed1770 MHzno data
Number of transistors6,600 million370 million
Manufacturing process technology12 nm40 nm
Power consumption (TDP)120 Watt35 Watt
Texture fill rate169.97.000
Floating-point processing power5.437 TFLOPS0.28 TFLOPS
ROPs484
TMUs968

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).

InterfacePCIe 3.0 x16PCIe 2.0 x16
Length229 mm168 mm
Width2-slot1-slot
Supplementary power connectors1x 8-pinNone

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 typeGDDR6DDR3
Maximum RAM amount6 GB1 GB
Memory bus width192 Bit64 Bit
Memory clock speed1500 MHz900 MHz
Memory bandwidth288.0 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 Connectors1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort1x DVI, 1x DisplayPort
HDMI+-

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (12_1)11.2 (11_0)
Shader Model6.55.0
OpenGL4.64.4
OpenCL1.21.2
Vulkan1.2.131N/A
CUDA7.5-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 22 February 2019 23 July 2013
Maximum RAM amount 6 GB 1 GB
Chip lithography 12 nm 40 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 120 Watt 35 Watt

GTX 1660 Ti has an age advantage of 5 years, a 500% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 233.3% more advanced lithography process.

HD 8490 OEM, on the other hand, has 242.9% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between GeForce GTX 1660 Ti and Radeon HD 8490 OEM. We've got no test results to judge.


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