Radeon HD 8490 OEM vs Iris Graphics 5100

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking904not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency4.43no data
ArchitectureGeneration 7.5 (2013)TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)
GPU code nameHaswell GT3Caicos
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date27 May 2013 (11 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 cores320160
Core clock speed200 MHz875 MHz
Boost clock speed1100 MHzno data
Number of transistors1,300 million370 million
Manufacturing process technology22 nm40 nm
Power consumption (TDP)30 Watt35 Watt
Texture fill rate44.007.000
Floating-point processing power0.704 TFLOPS0.28 TFLOPS
ROPs44
TMUs408

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 typeSystem SharedDDR3
Maximum RAM amountSystem Shared1 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 (11_1)11.2 (11_0)
Shader Model5.15.0
OpenGL4.34.4
OpenCL1.21.2
Vulkan+N/A

Pros & cons summary


Recency 27 May 2013 23 July 2013
Chip lithography 22 nm 40 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 30 Watt 35 Watt

Iris Graphics 5100 has a 81.8% more advanced lithography process, and 16.7% lower power consumption.

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

We couldn't decide between Iris Graphics 5100 and Radeon HD 8490 OEM. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Iris Graphics 5100 is a notebook card while Radeon HD 8490 OEM is a desktop one.


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Intel Iris Graphics 5100
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