Radeon Vega 8 Embedded vs ATI HD 5490

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Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot ratednot rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureTeraScale 2 (2009−2015)GCN 5.0 (2017−2020)
GPU code nameCedarRaven
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date28 October 2012 (12 years ago)19 April 2018 (6 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 cores80512
Core clock speed650 MHz300 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1101 MHz
Number of transistors292 million4,940 million
Manufacturing process technology40 nm14 nm
Power consumption (TDP)19 Watt35 Watt
Texture fill rate5.20035.23
Floating-point processing power0.104 TFLOPS1.127 TFLOPS
ROPs48
TMUs832

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 x16IGP
Length170 mmno data
Width1-slotIGP
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 typeGDDR3System Shared
Maximum RAM amount1 GBSystem Shared
Memory bus width64 BitSystem Shared
Memory clock speed500 MHzSystem Shared
Memory bandwidth8 GB/sno 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 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
OpenCL1.22.0
VulkanN/A1.2.131

Pros & cons summary


Recency 28 October 2012 19 April 2018
Chip lithography 40 nm 14 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 19 Watt 35 Watt

ATI HD 5490 has 84.2% lower power consumption.

Vega 8 Embedded, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 5 years, and a 185.7% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon HD 5490 and Radeon Vega 8 Embedded. We've got no test results to judge.


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