ATI Radeon HD 5490: specs and benchmarks
Summary
ATI started Radeon HD 5490 sales 28 October 2012. This is a desktop graphics card based on a TeraScale 2 architecture and made with 40 nm manufacturing process. It is primarily aimed at gamer market. 1 GB of GDDR3 memory clocked at 1 GHz are supplied, and together with 64 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 8 GB/s.
Compatibility-wise, this is single-slot card attached via PCIe 2.0 x16 interface. Its manufacturer default version has a length of 170 mm. No additional power connector is required, and power consumption is at 19 Watt.
We have no data on Radeon HD 5490 benchmark results.
General info
Some basic facts about Radeon HD 5490: architecture, market segment, release date etc.
Place in performance ranking | not rated | |
Place by popularity | not in top-100 | |
Architecture | TeraScale 2 (2009−2015) | |
GPU code name | Cedar | |
Market segment | Desktop | |
Release date | 28 October 2012 (11 years old) |
Technical specs
Radeon HD 5490's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of Radeon HD 5490's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.
Pipelines / CUDA cores | 80 | of 20480 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT) |
Core clock speed | 650 MHz | of 2610 (Radeon RX 6500 XT) |
Number of transistors | 292 million | of 14400 (GeForce GTX 1070 SLI Mobile) |
Manufacturing process technology | 40 nm | of 4 (GeForce RTX 4080) |
Power consumption (TDP) | 19 Watt | of 2400 (Data Center GPU Max Subsystem) |
Texture fill rate | 5.200 | of 969.9 (H100 SXM5 96 GB) |
Floating-point performance | 104.0 gflops | of 16384 (Radeon Pro Duo) |
Size and compatibility
This section provides details about the physical dimensions of Radeon HD 5490 and its compatibility with other computer components. This information is useful when selecting a computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards, it includes details about the interface and bus (for motherboard compatibility) and additional power connectors (for power supply compatibility).
Interface | PCIe 2.0 x16 | |
Length | 170 mm | |
Width | 1-slot | |
Supplementary power connectors | None |
Memory
Parameters of memory installed on Radeon HD 5490: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that GPUs integrated into processors have no dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM instead.
Memory type | GDDR3 | |
Maximum RAM amount | 1 GB | of 192 (Radeon Instinct MI300X) |
Memory bus width | 64 Bit | of 19000 (GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB) |
Memory clock speed | 1000 MHz | of 23000 (GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER) |
Memory bandwidth | 8 GB/s | of 3276 (Aldebaran) |
Video outputs and ports
Types and number of video connectors present on Radeon HD 5490. As a rule, this section is relevant only for desktop reference graphics cards, since for notebook ones the availability of certain video outputs depends on the laptop model, while non-reference desktop models can (though not necessarily will) bear a different set of video ports.
Display Connectors | 1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA | |
HDMI | + |
API support
APIs supported by Radeon HD 5490, sometimes including their particular versions.
DirectX | 11.2 (11_0) | |
Shader Model | 5.0 | |
OpenGL | 4.4 | of 4.6 (GeForce RTX 4090) |
OpenCL | 1.2 | |
Vulkan | N/A |
NVIDIA equivalent
According to our data, the closest NVIDIA alternative to Radeon HD 5490 is GeForce 800A.
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