Radeon HD 8490 OEM vs Quadro K600

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking907not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation0.19no data
Power efficiency3.23no 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)$199 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 cores192160
Core clock speed876 MHz875 MHz
Number of transistors1,270 million370 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm40 nm
Power consumption (TDP)41 Watt35 Watt
Texture fill rate14.027.000
Floating-point processing power0.3364 TFLOPS0.28 TFLOPS
ROPs164
TMUs168

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
Length160 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 typeDDR3DDR3
Maximum RAM amount1 GB1 GB
Memory bus width128 Bit64 Bit
Memory clock speed891 MHz900 MHz
Memory bandwidth28.51 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 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
Chip lithography 28 nm 40 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 41 Watt 35 Watt

Quadro K600 has a 42.9% more advanced lithography process.

HD 8490 OEM, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 4 months, and 17.1% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Quadro K600 and Radeon HD 8490 OEM. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Quadro K600 is a workstation graphics card while Radeon HD 8490 OEM is a desktop one.


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NVIDIA Quadro K600
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