Radeon HD 8490 OEM vs Radeon R7 240 (HD 8570 rebrand)
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| Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications |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 R7 240 (HD 8570 rebrand) |
| 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| Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications |
HWBench recommends Radeon R7 240 (HD 8570 rebrand)
Based on theoretical specifications.
Core Configuration
| Radeon HD 8490 OEM | | Radeon R7 240 (HD 8570 rebrand) | |
|---|
| GPU Name | Caicos (Caicos XTX) | vs | Oland () |
| Fab Process | 40 nm | vs | 28 nm |
| Die Size | 67 mm² | vs | 90 mm² |
| Transistors | 370 million | vs | 1,040 million |
| Shaders | 160 | vs | 320 |
| Compute Units | 2 | vs | 5 |
| Core clock | 875 MHz | vs | 730 MHz |
| ROPs | 4 | vs | 8 |
| TMUs | 8 | vs | 20 |
Memory Configuration
| Radeon HD 8490 OEM | | Radeon R7 240 (HD 8570 rebrand) | |
|---|
| Memory Type | DDR3 | vs | DDR3 |
| Bus Width | 64 bit | vs | 128 bit |
| Memory Speed | 900 MHz
1800 MHz effective | vs | 900 MHz
1800 MHz effective |
| Memory Size | 1024 Mb | vs | 2048 Mb |
Additional details
| Radeon HD 8490 OEM | | Radeon R7 240 (HD 8570 rebrand) | |
|---|
| TDP | 35 watts | vs | 50 watts |
| Release Date | 23 Jul 2013 | vs | 1 Nov 2013 |
GigaPixels - higher is better
GigaTexels - higher is better
GFLOPs - higher is better