AMD Radeon HD 8490 OEM vs Intel Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 500

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon HD 8490 OEM and Intel Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 500 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

AMD Radeon HD 8490 OEM

Intel Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 500

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 8490 OEM

Videocard is newer: launch date 4 year(s) 8 month(s) later
4.4x more core clock speed: 875 MHz vs 200 MHz
40x more pipelines: 160 vs 4
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 130 nm
87.7x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 263 vs 3
2.5x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 174 vs 70

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	23 July 2013 vs 1 November 2008
Core clock speed	875 MHz vs 200 MHz
Pipelines	160 vs 4
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm vs 130 nm
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	263 vs 3
PassMark - G2D Mark	174 vs 70

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon HD 8490 OEM
GPU 2: Intel Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 500

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

263

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

174

Name	AMD Radeon HD 8490 OEM	Intel Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 500
PassMark - G3D Mark	263	3
PassMark - G2D Mark	174	70
Geekbench - OpenCL	872
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	2.021
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	104.327
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	0.239
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	5.628
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	23.365
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	672
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	1078
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	2093
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	672
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	1078
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	2093

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon HD 8490 OEM	Intel Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 500
Essentials
Architecture	TeraScale 2	PowerVR SGX5
Code name	Caicos	GMA 500
Launch date	23 July 2013	1 November 2008
Place in performance rating	1541	1538
Type	Desktop	Laptop
Technical info
Core clock speed	875 MHz	200 MHz
Floating-point performance	280.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	130 nm
Pipelines	160	4
Texture fill rate	7 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	35 Watt
Transistor count	370 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x DVI, 1x DisplayPort
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16
Length	168 mm
Supplementary power connectors	None
API support
DirectX	11.2 (11_0)	10.1
OpenGL	4.4
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	1 GB
Memory bandwidth	14.4 GB / s
Memory bus width	64 Bit
Memory clock speed	1800 MHz
Memory type	DDR3
Shared memory		yes