AMD Radeon HD 7430M vs AMD Radeon HD 7490M

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon HD 7430M and AMD Radeon HD 7490M videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory.

AMD Radeon HD 7430M

AMD Radeon HD 7490M

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 7430M

Around 29% lower typical power consumption: 7 Watt vs 9 Watt

Thermal Design Power (TDP)	7 Watt vs 9 Watt

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 7490M

Around 33% higher core clock speed: 800 MHz vs 600 MHz
Around 33% higher texture fill rate: 6.4 GTexel / s vs 4.8 GTexel / s
Around 33% better floating-point performance: 256.0 gflops vs 192.0 gflops
2.4x more memory clock speed: 3800 MHz vs 1600 MHz

Core clock speed	800 MHz vs 600 MHz
Texture fill rate	6.4 GTexel / s vs 4.8 GTexel / s
Floating-point performance	256.0 gflops vs 192.0 gflops
Memory clock speed	3800 MHz vs 1600 MHz

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon HD 7430M	AMD Radeon HD 7490M
Essentials
Architecture	TeraScale 2	TeraScale 2
Code name	Seymour	Seymour
Launch date	7 January 2012	7 January 2012
Place in performance rating	not rated	not rated
Type	Laptop	Laptop
Technical info
Core clock speed	600 MHz	800 MHz
Floating-point performance	192.0 gflops	256.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	40 nm
Pipelines	160	160
Texture fill rate	4.8 GTexel / s	6.4 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	7 Watt	9 Watt
Transistor count	370 million	370 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	PCIe 2.0 x16
API support
DirectX	11.2 (11_0)	11.2 (11_0)
OpenGL	4.4	4.4
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	1 GB	1 GB
Memory bandwidth	12.8 GB / s	30.4 GB / s
Memory bus width	64 Bit	64 Bit
Memory clock speed	1600 MHz	3800 MHz
Memory type	DDR3	GDDR5
Shared memory	0	0