Radeon HD 7770 GHz Edition vs Radeon HD 8490 OEM

Radeon HD 7770 GHz Edition
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 15 Feb 2012
Radeon HD 7770 GHz Edition
Radeon HD 8490 OEM
Memory: 1024Mb DDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 23 Jul 2013
Radeon HD 8490 OEM

Summary

Reasons to consider Radeon HD 7770 GHz Edition

Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications.
Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute
Supports ReLive (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Supports Mantle
Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider Radeon HD 8490 OEM

45 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the Radeon HD 7770 GHz Edition .
This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Radeon HD 7770 GHz Edition

HWBench recommends Radeon HD 7770 GHz Edition

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

Radeon HD 7770 GHz EditionRadeon HD 8490 OEM
GPU NameCape Verde (Cape Verde XT)vsCaicos (Caicos XTX)
Fab Process28 nmvs40 nm
Die Size123 mm²vs67 mm²
Transistors1,500 millionvs370 million
Shaders640vs160
Compute Units10vs2
Core clock1000 MHzvs875 MHz
ROPs16vs4
TMUs40vs8

Memory Configuration

Radeon HD 7770 GHz EditionRadeon HD 8490 OEM
Memory TypeGDDR5vsDDR3
Bus Width128 bitvs64 bit
Memory Speed1125 MHz
4500 MHz effective
vs900 MHz
1800 MHz effective
Memory Size1024 Mbvs1024 Mb

Additional details

Radeon HD 7770 GHz EditionRadeon HD 8490 OEM
TDP80 wattsvs35 watts
Release Date15 Feb 2012vs23 Jul 2013

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon HD 7770 GHz Edition
    16.00 GP/s
  • Radeon HD 8490 OEM
    3.50 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon HD 7770 GHz Edition
    40.00 GT/s
  • Radeon HD 8490 OEM
    7.00 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon HD 7770 GHz Edition
    72.00 GB/s
  • Radeon HD 8490 OEM
    14.40 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon HD 7770 GHz Edition
    1280.00 GFLOPs
  • Radeon HD 8490 OEM
    280.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better