Radeon RX 460 vs Radeon HD 8490 OEM

Radeon RX 460
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 29 Jun 2016
Radeon RX 460
Radeon HD 8490 OEM
Memory: 1024Mb DDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 23 Jul 2013
Radeon HD 8490 OEM

Summary

Reasons to consider Radeon RX 460

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 FreeSync
Supports ReLive (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Supports TrueAudio
Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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

40 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the Radeon RX 460 .
Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Radeon RX 460

HWBench recommends Radeon RX 460

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

Radeon RX 460Radeon HD 8490 OEM
GPU NameBaffin (Baffin PRO)vsCaicos (Caicos XTX)
Fab Process14 nmvs40 nm
Die Size123 mm²vs67 mm²
Transistors3,000 millionvs370 million
Shaders896vs160
Compute Units14vs2
Core clock1090 MHzvs875 MHz
ROPs16vs4
TMUs56vs8

Memory Configuration

Radeon RX 460Radeon HD 8490 OEM
Memory TypeGDDR5vsDDR3
Bus Width128 bitvs64 bit
Memory Speed1750 MHz
7000 MHz effective
vs900 MHz
1800 MHz effective
Memory Size2048 Mbvs1024 Mb

Additional details

Radeon RX 460Radeon HD 8490 OEM
TDP75 wattsvs35 watts
Release Date29 Jun 2016vs23 Jul 2013

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon RX 460
    19.20 GP/s
  • Radeon HD 8490 OEM
    3.50 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon RX 460
    67.20 GT/s
  • Radeon HD 8490 OEM
    7.00 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon RX 460
    112.00 GB/s
  • Radeon HD 8490 OEM
    14.40 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon RX 460
    2150.40 GFLOPs
  • Radeon HD 8490 OEM
    280.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better