AMD Radeon HD 8490 OEM vs NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GT

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon HD 8490 OEM and NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GT 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 5 year(s) 1 month(s) later
• 7.3x more core clock speed: 875 MHz vs 120 MHz
• 5x more pipelines: 160 vs 32
• 3.5x better floating-point performance: 280.0 gflops vs 80 gflops
• A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 65 nm
• 2x more maximum memory size: 1 GB vs 512 MB
• Around 13% higher memory clock speed: 1800 MHz vs 1600 MHz
• Around 88% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 263 vs 140
• 6.2x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 174 vs 28
• Around 25% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 2093 vs 1679
• Around 25% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 2093 vs 1679

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GT

• Around 14% higher texture fill rate: 8 GTexel / s vs 7 GTexel / s
• Around 52% lower typical power consumption: 23 Watt vs 35 Watt
• Around 6% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames): 1140 vs 1078
• Around 6% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps): 1140 vs 1078

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon HD 8490 OEM
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GT

PassMark - G3D Mark	GPU 1 GPU 2	263 140
PassMark - G2D Mark	GPU 1 GPU 2	174 28
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	1078 1140
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	2093 1679
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	1078 1140
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	2093 1679

Compare specifications (specs)