Radeon HD 8490 OEM vs Quadro K2000

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking692not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation0.41no data
Power efficiency5.51no data
ArchitectureKepler (2012−2018)TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)
GPU code nameGK107Caicos
Market segmentWorkstationDesktop
Release date1 March 2013 (11 years ago)23 July 2013 (11 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$599 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 cores384160
Core clock speed954 MHz875 MHz
Number of transistors1,270 million370 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm40 nm
Power consumption (TDP)51 Watt35 Watt
Texture fill rate30.537.000
Floating-point processing power0.7327 TFLOPS0.28 TFLOPS
ROPs164
TMUs328

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 2.0 x16PCIe 2.0 x16
Length202 mm168 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 typeGDDR5DDR3
Maximum RAM amount2 GB1 GB
Memory bus width128 Bit64 Bit
Memory clock speed1000 MHz900 MHz
Memory bandwidth64 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, 2x DisplayPort1x DVI, 1x DisplayPort

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (11_0)11.2 (11_0)
Shader Model5.15.0
OpenGL4.64.4
OpenCL1.21.2
Vulkan+N/A
CUDA3.0-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 1 March 2013 23 July 2013
Maximum RAM amount 2 GB 1 GB
Chip lithography 28 nm 40 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 51 Watt 35 Watt

Quadro K2000 has a 100% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 42.9% more advanced lithography process.

HD 8490 OEM, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 4 months, and 45.7% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Quadro K2000 and Radeon HD 8490 OEM. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Quadro K2000 is a workstation graphics card while Radeon HD 8490 OEM is a desktop one.


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NVIDIA Quadro K2000
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