Radeon RX 490M vs HD 8210

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking1234not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency4.26no data
ArchitectureGCN 2.0 (2013−2017)Polaris (2016−2019)
GPU code nameKalindiPolaris
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date31 January 2014 (10 years ago)1 August 2016 (8 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 cores128no data
Core clock speed300 MHzno data
Number of transistors1,178 millionno data
Manufacturing process technology28 nm14 nm
Power consumption (TDP)8 Wattno data
Texture fill rate2.400no data
Floating-point processing power0.0768 TFLOPSno data
ROPs4no data
TMUs8no data

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).

Laptop sizeno datalarge
InterfaceIGPno data

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 typeSystem SharedGDDR5
Maximum RAM amountSystem Sharedno data
Memory bus widthSystem Sharedno data
Memory clock speedSystem Sharedno data
Shared memory+-

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 outputsno data

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX12 (12_0)12
Shader Model6.3no data
OpenGL4.6no data
OpenCL2.0no data
Vulkan1.2.131-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 31 January 2014 1 August 2016
Chip lithography 28 nm 14 nm

RX 490M has an age advantage of 2 years, and a 100% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon HD 8210 and Radeon RX 490M. We've got no test results to judge.


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AMD Radeon HD 8210
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