Switch GPU vs Radeon HD 8490 OEM

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Primary details

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

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Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureTeraScale 2 (2009−2015)Maxwell 2.0 (2014−2019)
GPU code nameCaicosGM20B
Market segmentDesktopLaptop
Release date23 July 2013 (11 years ago)17 March 2017 (7 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 cores160256
Core clock speed875 MHz384 MHz
Boost clock speedno data768 MHz
Number of transistors370 million2,000 million
Manufacturing process technology40 nm20 nm
Power consumption (TDP)35 Watt15 Watt
Texture fill rate7.00012.29
Floating-point processing power0.28 TFLOPS0.3932 TFLOPS
ROPs48
TMUs816

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-slotno data
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 typeDDR3DDR4
Maximum RAM amount1 GB4 GB
Memory bus width64 Bit64 Bit
Memory clock speed900 MHz1600 MHz
Memory bandwidth14.4 GB/s25.6 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 DisplayPortNo outputs

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
OpenCL1.21.2
VulkanN/A1.1.126
CUDA-5.3

Pros & cons summary


Recency 23 July 2013 17 March 2017
Maximum RAM amount 1 GB 4 GB
Chip lithography 40 nm 20 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 35 Watt 15 Watt

Switch GPU has an age advantage of 3 years, a 300% higher maximum VRAM amount, a 100% more advanced lithography process, and 133.3% lower power consumption.

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

Be aware that Radeon HD 8490 OEM is a desktop card while Switch GPU is a notebook one.


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