AMD Radeon HD 8490 OEM vs NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon HD 8490 OEM and NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. 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).

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 8490 OEM

• Videocard is newer: launch date 6 year(s) 3 month(s) later
• Around 30% higher core clock speed: 875 MHz vs 675 MHz
• 5x more pipelines: 160 vs 32
• 3x better floating-point performance: 280.0 gflops vs 92.8 gflops
• A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 80 nm
• Around 71% lower typical power consumption: 35 Watt vs 60 Watt
• 4x more maximum memory size: 1 GB vs 256 MB
• Around 80% higher memory clock speed: 1800 MHz vs 1000 MHz
• Around 55% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 263 vs 170
• 6.7x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 174 vs 26
• 209.3x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 2093 vs 10
• 209.3x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 2093 vs 10

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS

• Around 54% higher texture fill rate: 10.8 billion / sec vs 7 GTexel / s
• Around 60% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames): 1728 vs 1078
• Around 60% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps): 1728 vs 1078

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon HD 8490 OEM
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS

PassMark - G3D Mark	GPU 1 GPU 2	263 170
PassMark - G2D Mark	GPU 1 GPU 2	174 26
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	1078 1728
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	2093 10
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	1078 1728
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	2093 10

Compare specifications (specs)