Radeon HD 8490 OEM vs Radeon R5 230
Summary
Reasons to consider Radeon HD 8490 OEM |
| Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications. |
| Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications |
Reasons to consider Radeon R5 230 |
| Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications |
HWBench recommends Radeon HD 8490 OEM
Based on theoretical specifications.
Core Configuration
| Radeon HD 8490 OEM | | Radeon R5 230 | |
|---|
| GPU Name | Caicos (Caicos XTX) | vs | Caicos (Caicos PRO) |
| Fab Process | 40 nm | vs | 40 nm |
| Die Size | 67 mm² | vs | 67 mm² |
| Transistors | 370 million | vs | 370 million |
| Shaders | 160 | vs | 160 |
| Compute Units | 2 | vs | 2 |
| Core clock | 875 MHz | vs | 625 MHz |
| ROPs | 4 | vs | 4 |
| TMUs | 8 | vs | 8 |
Memory Configuration
| Radeon HD 8490 OEM | | Radeon R5 230 | |
|---|
| Memory Type | DDR3 | vs | DDR3 |
| Bus Width | 64 bit | vs | 64 bit |
| Memory Speed | 900 MHz
1800 MHz effective | vs | 667 MHz
1334 MHz effective |
| Memory Size | 1024 Mb | vs | 1024 Mb |
Additional details
| Radeon HD 8490 OEM | | Radeon R5 230 | |
|---|
| TDP | 35 watts | vs | 19 watts |
| Release Date | 23 Jul 2013 | vs | 3 Apr 2014 |
Radeon HD 8490 OEM
3.50 GP/s
Radeon R5 230
2.50 GP/s
GigaPixels - higher is better
Radeon HD 8490 OEM
7.00 GT/s
Radeon R5 230
5.00 GT/s
GigaTexels - higher is better
Radeon HD 8490 OEM
14.40 GB/s
Radeon R5 230
10.67 GB/s
GB/s - higher is better
Radeon HD 8490 OEM
280.00 GFLOPs
Radeon R5 230
200.00 GFLOPs
GFLOPs - higher is better