Iris Xe MAX Graphics vs ATI Radeon HD 5490

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Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated624
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiencyno data14.03
ArchitectureTeraScale 2 (2009−2015)Generation 12.1 (2020−2021)
GPU code nameCedarDG1
Market segmentDesktopLaptop
Release date28 October 2012 (12 years ago)31 October 2020 (4 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 cores80768
Core clock speed650 MHz300 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1650 MHz
Number of transistors292 millionno data
Manufacturing process technology40 nm10 nm
Power consumption (TDP)19 Watt25 Watt
Texture fill rate5.20079.20
Floating-point processing power0.104 TFLOPS2.534 TFLOPS
ROPs424
TMUs848

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 4.0 x4
Length170 mmno data
Width1-slotno data
Supplementary power connectorsNoneno data

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 typeGDDR3LPDDR4X
Maximum RAM amount1 GB4 GB
Memory bus width64 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed500 MHz2133 MHz
Memory bandwidth8 GB/s68.26 GB/s
Shared memory--

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 VGANo outputs
HDMI+-

API compatibility

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

DirectX11.2 (11_0)12 (12_1)
Shader Model5.06.4
OpenGL4.44.6
OpenCL1.23.0
VulkanN/A1.2

Pros & cons summary


Recency 28 October 2012 31 October 2020
Maximum RAM amount 1 GB 4 GB
Chip lithography 40 nm 10 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 19 Watt 25 Watt

ATI HD 5490 has 31.6% lower power consumption.

Iris Xe MAX Graphics, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 8 years, a 300% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 300% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon HD 5490 and Iris Xe MAX Graphics. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon HD 5490 is a desktop card while Iris Xe MAX Graphics is a notebook one.


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