Arctic Sound-M vs Radeon HD 7490M
Contents
Primary details
GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.
| Place in the ranking | not rated | not rated |
| Place by popularity | not in top-100 | not in top-100 |
| Architecture | TeraScale 2 (2009−2015) | Generation 12.5 (2021−2023) |
| GPU code name | Seymour | Arctic Sound |
| Market segment | Laptop | Workstation |
| Release date | 7 January 2012 (14 years ago) | 2022 (4 years ago) |
Detailed specifications
General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.
| Pipelines / CUDA cores | 160 | 8192 |
| Core clock speed | 800 MHz | 900 MHz |
| Number of transistors | 370 million | 8,000 million |
| Manufacturing process technology | 40 nm | 10 nm |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 9 Watt | 500 Watt |
| Texture fill rate | 6.400 | 230.4 |
| Floating-point processing power | 0.256 TFLOPS | 14.75 TFLOPS |
| ROPs | 4 | 128 |
| TMUs | 8 | 256 |
| L1 Cache | 16 KB | no data |
| L2 Cache | 128 KB | 8 MB |
Form factor & compatibility
Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).
| Interface | PCIe 2.0 x16 | PCIe 4.0 x16 |
| Length | no data | 267 mm |
| Width | no data | 1-slot |
| Supplementary power connectors | no data | 8-pin EPS |
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 | GDDR5 | HBM2e |
| Maximum RAM amount | 1 GB | 16 GB |
| Memory bus width | 64 Bit | 4096 Bit |
| Memory clock speed | 950 MHz | 1200 MHz |
| Memory bandwidth | 30.4 GB/s | 1.23 TB/s |
| Shared memory | - | - |
Connectivity and outputs
This section shows the types and number of video connectors on each GPU. The data applies specifically to desktop reference models (for example, NVIDIA’s Founders Edition). OEM partners often modify both the number and types of ports. On notebook GPUs, video‐output options are determined by the laptop’s design rather than the graphics chip itself.
| Display Connectors | No outputs | No outputs |
API and SDK support
List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.
| DirectX | 11.2 (11_0) | 12 (12_1) |
| Shader Model | 5.0 | 6.6 |
| OpenGL | 4.4 | 4.6 |
| OpenCL | 1.2 | 3.0 |
| Vulkan | N/A | N/A |
Pros & cons summary
| Maximum RAM amount | 1 GB | 16 GB |
| Chip lithography | 40 nm | 10 nm |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 9 Watt | 500 Watt |
HD 7490M has 5455.6% lower power consumption.
Arctic Sound-M, on the other hand, has a 1500% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 300% more advanced lithography process.
We couldn't decide between Radeon HD 7490M and Arctic Sound-M. We've got no test results to judge.
Be aware that Radeon HD 7490M is a notebook graphics card while Arctic Sound-M is a workstation one.
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