AMD Radeon HD 8490 OEM vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 130M

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon HD 8490 OEM and NVIDIA GeForce GT 130M 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).

AMD Radeon HD 8490 OEM

NVIDIA GeForce GT 130M

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 8490 OEM

Videocard is newer: launch date 4 year(s) 6 month(s) later
5x more pipelines: 160 vs 32
2.9x better floating-point performance: 280.0 gflops vs 96 gflops
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 65 nm
3.6x more memory clock speed: 1800 MHz vs 500 (DDR2) / 800 (GDDR3) MHz
Around 81% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 263 vs 145
6x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 174 vs 29

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	23 July 2013 vs 8 January 2009
Pipelines	160 vs 32
Floating-point performance	280.0 gflops vs 96 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm vs 65 nm
Memory clock speed	1800 MHz vs 500 (DDR2) / 800 (GDDR3) MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	263 vs 145
PassMark - G2D Mark	174 vs 29

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GT 130M

Around 71% higher core clock speed: 1500 MHz vs 875 MHz
Around 37% higher texture fill rate: 9.6 GTexel / s vs 7 GTexel / s
Around 52% lower typical power consumption: 23 Watt vs 35 Watt
Around 31% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 2744 vs 2093
Around 31% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 2744 vs 2093

Specifications (specs)
Core clock speed	1500 MHz vs 875 MHz
Texture fill rate	9.6 GTexel / s vs 7 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	23 Watt vs 35 Watt
Benchmarks
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	2744 vs 2093
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	2744 vs 2093

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon HD 8490 OEM
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GT 130M

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

263

145

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

174

GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)

GPU 1

GPU 2

2093

2744

GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)

GPU 1

GPU 2

2093

2744

Name	AMD Radeon HD 8490 OEM	NVIDIA GeForce GT 130M
PassMark - G3D Mark	263	145
PassMark - G2D Mark	174	29
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	2744
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	672
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	1078
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	2093	2744

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon HD 8490 OEM	NVIDIA GeForce GT 130M
Essentials
Architecture	TeraScale 2	Tesla
Code name	Caicos	G96
Launch date	23 July 2013	8 January 2009
Place in performance rating	1535	1532
Type	Desktop	Laptop
Technical info
Core clock speed	875 MHz	1500 MHz
Floating-point performance	280.0 gflops	96 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	65 nm
Pipelines	160	32
Texture fill rate	7 GTexel / s	9.6 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	35 Watt	23 Watt
Transistor count	370 million	314 million
CUDA cores		32
Gigaflops		144
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x DVI, 1x DisplayPort	Single Link DVIDisplayPortVGAHDMIDual Link DVI
HDMI
Maximum VGA resolution		2048x1536
Multi monitor support
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	PCIe 2.0 x16
Length	168 mm
Supplementary power connectors	None
Bus support		PCI-E 2.0
Laptop size		medium sized
SLI options		2-way
API support
DirectX	11.2 (11_0)	10.0
OpenGL	4.4	2.1
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	1 GB
Memory bandwidth	14.4 GB / s	16 (DDR2) / 25 (GDDR3)
Memory bus width	64 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	1800 MHz	500 (DDR2) / 800 (GDDR3) MHz
Memory type	DDR3	GDDR2, GDDR3
Shared memory		0
Technologies
CUDA
PCI-E 2.0
Power management		8.0