Radeon HD 8490 OEM vs GeForce GT 420M

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Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in performance ranking1062not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation0.03no data
ArchitectureFermi (2010−2014)TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)
GPU code nameN11P-GECaicos
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date3 September 2010 (13 years ago)23 July 2013 (11 years ago)

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

no data

Detailed specifications

General performance parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider their benchmark and gaming test results. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores96160
Core clock speed500 MHz875 MHz
Number of transistors585 million370 million
Manufacturing process technology40 nm40 nm
Power consumption (TDP)23 Watt35 Watt
Texture fill rate8.0007.000
Floating-point performance192 gflops280.0 gflops

Form factor & compatibility

Information on GeForce GT 420M and Radeon HD 8490 OEM compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop video cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility). For notebook video cards it's notebook size, connection slot and bus, if the video card is inserted into a slot instead of being soldered to the notebook motherboard.

Laptop sizemedium sizedno data
InterfacePCIe 2.0 x16PCIe 2.0 x16
Lengthno data168 mm
Widthno data1-slot
Supplementary power connectorsno dataNone

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory type(G)DDR3DDR3
Maximum RAM amount1 GB1 GB
Memory bus width128 Bit64 Bit
Memory clock speed800 MHz1800 MHz
Memory bandwidth25.6 GB/s14.4 GB/s
Shared memory-no data

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display ConnectorsNo outputs1x DVI, 1x DisplayPort

API compatibility

List of supported graphics and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX12 (11_0)11.2 (11_0)
Shader Model5.15.0
OpenGL4.64.4
OpenCL1.11.2
VulkanN/AN/A
CUDA2.1no data

Pros & cons summary


Recency 3 September 2010 23 July 2013
Power consumption (TDP) 23 Watt 35 Watt

GT 420M has 52.2% lower power consumption.

HD 8490 OEM, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 2 years.

We couldn't decide between GeForce GT 420M and Radeon HD 8490 OEM. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that GeForce GT 420M is a notebook card while Radeon HD 8490 OEM is a desktop one.


Should you still have questions concerning choice between the reviewed GPUs, ask them in Comments section, and we shall answer.

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NVIDIA GeForce GT 420M
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AMD Radeon HD 8490 OEM
Radeon HD 8490 OEM

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