HD Graphics P4600 vs Radeon HD 8490 OEM

Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated965
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiencyno data1.30
ArchitectureTeraScale 2 (2009−2015)Generation 7.5 (2013)
GPU code nameCaicosHaswell GT2
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date23 July 2013 (11 years ago)1 June 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 cores160160
Core clock speed875 MHz350 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1200 MHz
Number of transistors370 million392 million
Manufacturing process technology40 nm22 nm
Power consumption (TDP)35 Watt84 Watt
Texture fill rate7.00024.00
Floating-point processing power0.28 TFLOPS0.384 TFLOPS
ROPs42
TMUs820

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
Length168 mmno data
Width1-slotIGP
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 typeDDR3System Shared
Maximum RAM amount1 GBSystem Shared
Memory bus width64 BitSystem Shared
Memory clock speed900 MHzSystem Shared
Memory bandwidth14.4 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 DisplayPortNo outputs

API compatibility

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

DirectX11.2 (11_0)12 (11_1)
Shader Model5.05.1
OpenGL4.44.3
OpenCL1.21.2
VulkanN/A1.1.80

Pros & cons summary


Recency 23 July 2013 1 June 2013
Chip lithography 40 nm 22 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 35 Watt 84 Watt

HD 8490 OEM has an age advantage of 1 month, and 140% lower power consumption.

HD Graphics P4600, on the other hand, has a 81.8% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon HD 8490 OEM and HD Graphics P4600. We've got no test results to judge.


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AMD Radeon HD 8490 OEM
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