GeForce GT 610 vs Radeon HD 8490 OEM

GeForce GT 610
Memory: 1024Mb DDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 2 Apr 2012
GeForce GT 610
Radeon HD 8490 OEM
Memory: 1024Mb DDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 23 Jul 2013
Radeon HD 8490 OEM

Summary

Reasons to consider GeForce GT 610

Supports PhysX
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Fermi), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider Radeon HD 8490 OEM

This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications.
Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Radeon HD 8490 OEM

HWBench recommends Radeon HD 8490 OEM

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GT 610Radeon HD 8490 OEM
GPU NameGF119 (GF119-300-A1)vsCaicos (Caicos XTX)
Fab Process40 nmvs40 nm
Die Size79 mm²vs67 mm²
Transistors292 millionvs370 million
Shaders48vs160
Compute Units1vs2
Core clock810 MHzvs875 MHz
ROPs4vs4
TMUs8vs8

Memory Configuration

GeForce GT 610Radeon HD 8490 OEM
Memory TypeDDR3vsDDR3
Bus Width64 bitvs64 bit
Memory Speed898 MHz
1796 MHz effective
vs900 MHz
1800 MHz effective
Memory Size1024 Mbvs1024 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GT 610Radeon HD 8490 OEM
TDP29 wattsvs35 watts
Release Date2 Apr 2012vs23 Jul 2013

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GT 610
    1.62 GP/s
  • Radeon HD 8490 OEM
    3.50 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GT 610
    6.48 GT/s
  • Radeon HD 8490 OEM
    7.00 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GT 610
    14.40 GB/s
  • Radeon HD 8490 OEM
    14.40 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GT 610
    155.50 GFLOPs
  • Radeon HD 8490 OEM
    280.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better