NVIDIA GeForce GTX 490 vs AMD Radeon HD 8310G

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General info

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

Place in performance rankingnot ratednot rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureTeraScale 3 (2010−2013)Fermi (2010−2014)
GPU code nameTrinityGF100
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date23 May 2013 (10 years old)no data
Current price$338 $315

Technical specs

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 cores128480
Core clock speed424 MHz608 MHz
Boost clock speed554 MHzno data
Number of transistors1,303 million3,100 million
Manufacturing process technology32 nm40 nm
Power consumption (TDP)20 Watt365 Watt
Texture fill rate5.76036.48

Size and compatibility

Information on Radeon HD 8310G and GeForce GTX 490 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.

InterfaceIGPPCIe 2.0 x16
Lengthno data279 mm
Widthno data2-slot
Supplementary power connectorsno data2x 8-pin

Memory

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 Shared1536 MB
Memory bus widthSystem Shared384 Bit
Memory clock speedSystem Shared3.4 GB/s
Memory bandwidthno data164.0 GB/s
Shared memory+no data

Video outputs and ports

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 outputs3x DVI, 1x mini-DisplayPort

API support

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

DirectX11.2 (11_0)12 (11_0)
Shader Model5.05.1
OpenGL4.44.6
OpenCL1.21.1
VulkanN/AN/A
CUDAno data2.0

Advantages and disadvantages


Maximum RAM amount System Shared 1536 MB
Chip lithography 32 nm 40 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 20 Watt 365 Watt

We couldn't decide between Radeon HD 8310G and GeForce GTX 490. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon HD 8310G is a notebook card while GeForce GTX 490 is a desktop one.


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