Radeon HD 8490 OEM vs Radeon R5 235X OEM

Radeon HD 8490 OEM
Memory: 1024Mb DDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 23 Jul 2013
Radeon HD 8490 OEM
Radeon R5 235X OEM
Memory: 1024Mb DDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 21 Dec 2013
Radeon R5 235X OEM

Summary

Reasons to consider Radeon HD 8490 OEM

Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider Radeon R5 235X OEM

Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

No clear winner declared

We have no data to declare a winner at this time.


Specifications

Core Configuration

Radeon HD 8490 OEMRadeon R5 235X OEM
GPU NameCaicos (Caicos XTX)vsCaicos (Caicos XT)
Fab Process40 nmvs40 nm
Die Size67 mm²vs67 mm²
Transistors370 millionvs370 million
Shaders160vs160
Compute Units2vs2
Core clock875 MHzvs875 MHz
ROPs4vs4
TMUs8vs8

Memory Configuration

Radeon HD 8490 OEMRadeon R5 235X OEM
Memory TypeDDR3vsDDR3
Bus Width64 bitvs64 bit
Memory Speed900 MHz
1800 MHz effective
vs900 MHz
1800 MHz effective
Memory Size1024 Mbvs1024 Mb

Additional details

Radeon HD 8490 OEMRadeon R5 235X OEM
TDP35 wattsvs18 watts
Release Date23 Jul 2013vs21 Dec 2013

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon HD 8490 OEM
    3.50 GP/s
  • Radeon R5 235X OEM
    3.50 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon HD 8490 OEM
    7.00 GT/s
  • Radeon R5 235X OEM
    7.00 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon HD 8490 OEM
    14.40 GB/s
  • Radeon R5 235X OEM
    14.40 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon HD 8490 OEM
    280.00 GFLOPs
  • Radeon R5 235X OEM
    280.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better