Radeon HD 8490 OEM vs HD Graphics 505

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking1121not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency10.93no data
ArchitectureGeneration 9.0 (2015−2016)TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)
GPU code nameApollo Lake GT1.5Caicos
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date1 September 2016 (8 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 cores144160
Core clock speed200 MHz875 MHz
Boost clock speed650 MHzno data
Number of transistors189 million370 million
Manufacturing process technology14 nm40 nm
Power consumption (TDP)10 Watt35 Watt
Texture fill rate11.707.000
Floating-point processing power0.1872 TFLOPS0.28 TFLOPS
ROPs34
TMUs188

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).

InterfaceRing BusPCIe 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 typeDDR3L/LPDDR3/LPDDR4DDR3
Maximum RAM amount8 GB1 GB
Memory bus widthSystem Shared64 Bit
Memory clock speedSystem Shared900 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data14.4 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 ConnectorsPortable Device Dependent1x DVI, 1x DisplayPort

Supported technologies

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

Quick Sync+no data

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (12_1)11.2 (11_0)
Shader Model6.45.0
OpenGL4.64.4
OpenCL3.01.2
Vulkan1.3N/A

Pros & cons summary


Recency 1 September 2016 23 July 2013
Maximum RAM amount 8 GB 1 GB
Chip lithography 14 nm 40 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 10 Watt 35 Watt

HD Graphics 505 has an age advantage of 3 years, a 700% higher maximum VRAM amount, a 185.7% more advanced lithography process, and 250% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between HD Graphics 505 and Radeon HD 8490 OEM. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that HD Graphics 505 is a notebook card while Radeon HD 8490 OEM is a desktop one.


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Intel HD Graphics 505
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