GeForce 605 OEM vs Radeon HD 8490 OEM

Primary details

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

Place in performance ranking	not rated	not rated
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Architecture	TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)	Fermi 2.0 (2010−2014)
GPU code name	Caicos	GF119
Market segment	Desktop	Desktop
Release date	23 July 2013 (10 years ago)	2 April 2012 (12 years ago)
Current price	$30	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 cores	160	48
Core clock speed	875 MHz	523 MHz
Number of transistors	370 million	292 million
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	40 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	35 Watt	25 Watt
Texture fill rate	7.000	4.184
Floating-point performance	280.0 gflops	100.4 gflops

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 2.0 x16
Length	168 mm	145 mm
Width	1-slot	1-slot
Supplementary power connectors	None	None

Memory type	DDR3	DDR3
Maximum RAM amount	1 GB	512 MB
Memory bus width	64 Bit	64 Bit
Memory clock speed	1800 MHz	1794 MHz
Memory bandwidth	14.4 GB/s	14.35 GB/s

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 Connectors	1x DVI, 1x DisplayPort	1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA
HDMI	no data	+

API compatibility

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

DirectX	11.2 (11_0)	12 (11_0)
Shader Model	5.0	5.1
OpenGL	4.4	4.6
OpenCL	1.2	1.1
Vulkan	N/A	N/A
CUDA	no data	2.1

Pros & cons summary

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Recency	23 July 2013	2 April 2012
Maximum RAM amount	1 GB	512 MB
Power consumption (TDP)	35 Watt	25 Watt

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