Radeon HD 8490 OEM vs HD 8670D

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking1010not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency0.96no data
ArchitectureTeraScale 3 (2010−2013)TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)
GPU code nameDevastatorCaicos
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date12 March 2013 (11 years ago)23 July 2013 (11 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 cores384160
Core clock speed844 MHz875 MHz
Boost clock speed950 MHzno data
Number of transistors1,303 million370 million
Manufacturing process technology32 nm40 nm
Power consumption (TDP)100 Watt35 Watt
Texture fill rate22.807.000
Floating-point processing power0.7296 TFLOPS0.28 TFLOPS
ROPs84
TMUs248

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).

InterfaceIGPPCIe 2.0 x16
Lengthno data168 mm
WidthIGP1-slot
Supplementary power connectorsno dataNone

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 SharedDDR3
Maximum RAM amountSystem Shared1 GB
Memory bus widthSystem Shared64 Bit
Memory clock speedSystem Shared900 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data14.4 GB/s
Shared memory+no data

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 outputs1x DVI, 1x DisplayPort

API compatibility

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

DirectX11.2 (11_0)11.2 (11_0)
Shader Model5.05.0
OpenGL4.44.4
OpenCL1.21.2
VulkanN/AN/A

Pros & cons summary


Recency 12 March 2013 23 July 2013
Chip lithography 32 nm 40 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 100 Watt 35 Watt

HD 8670D has a 25% more advanced lithography process.

HD 8490 OEM, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 4 months, and 185.7% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon HD 8670D and Radeon HD 8490 OEM. We've got no test results to judge.


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