Radeon R5 340X OEM vs Radeon HD 8490 OEM

Radeon R5 340X OEM
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 5 May 2015
Radeon R5 340X OEM
Radeon HD 8490 OEM
Memory: 1024Mb DDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 23 Jul 2013
Radeon HD 8490 OEM

Summary

Reasons to consider Radeon R5 340X OEM

This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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

Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Radeon R5 340X OEM

HWBench recommends Radeon R5 340X OEM

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

Radeon R5 340X OEMRadeon HD 8490 OEM
GPU NameOland (Oland XT)vsCaicos (Caicos XTX)
Fab Process28 nmvs40 nm
Die Size90 mm²vs67 mm²
Transistors1,040 millionvs370 million
Shaders384vs160
Compute Units6vs2
Core clock1000 MHzvs875 MHz
ROPs8vs4
TMUs24vs8

Memory Configuration

Radeon R5 340X OEMRadeon 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 R5 340X OEMRadeon HD 8490 OEM
TDP65 wattsvs35 watts
Release Date5 May 2015vs23 Jul 2013

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon R5 340X OEM
    8.00 GP/s
  • Radeon HD 8490 OEM
    3.50 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon R5 340X OEM
    24.00 GT/s
  • Radeon HD 8490 OEM
    7.00 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon R5 340X OEM
    72.00 GB/s
  • Radeon HD 8490 OEM
    14.40 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon R5 340X OEM
    768.00 GFLOPs
  • Radeon HD 8490 OEM
    280.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better