AMD Radeon HD 8490 OEM vs NVIDIA GeForce GTS 250M

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon HD 8490 OEM and NVIDIA GeForce GTS 250M 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 GTS 250M

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 8490 OEM

Videocard is newer: launch date 4 year(s) 1 month(s) later
Around 75% higher core clock speed: 875 MHz vs 500 MHz
Around 67% higher pipelines: 160 vs 96
Around 17% better floating-point performance: 280.0 gflops vs 240 gflops
3.5x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 174 vs 50

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	23 July 2013 vs 15 June 2009
Core clock speed	875 MHz vs 500 MHz
Pipelines	160 vs 96
Floating-point performance	280.0 gflops vs 240 gflops
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	174 vs 50

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTS 250M

2.3x more texture fill rate: 16 GTexel / s vs 7 GTexel / s
Around 25% lower typical power consumption: 28 Watt vs 35 Watt
2.1x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 554 vs 263
9.4x better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 8215 vs 871

Specifications (specs)
Texture fill rate	16 GTexel / s vs 7 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	28 Watt vs 35 Watt
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	554 vs 263
Geekbench - OpenCL	8215 vs 871

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon HD 8490 OEM
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GTS 250M

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

263

554

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

174

Geekbench - OpenCL

GPU 1

GPU 2

871

8215

Name	AMD Radeon HD 8490 OEM	NVIDIA GeForce GTS 250M
PassMark - G3D Mark	263	554
PassMark - G2D Mark	174	50
Geekbench - OpenCL	871	8215
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	NVIDIA GeForce GTS 250M
Essentials
Architecture	TeraScale 2	Tesla 2.0
Code name	Caicos	GT215
Launch date	23 July 2013	15 June 2009
Place in performance rating	1535	1532
Type	Desktop	Laptop
Technical info
Core clock speed	875 MHz	500 MHz
Floating-point performance	280.0 gflops	240 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	40 nm
Pipelines	160	96
Texture fill rate	7 GTexel / s	16 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	35 Watt	28 Watt
Transistor count	370 million	727 million
CUDA cores		96
Gigaflops		360
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x DVI, 1x DisplayPort	HDMIVGALVDSSingle Link DVIDisplayPortDual Link DVI
HDMI
Maximum VGA resolution		2048x1536
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		large
MXM Type		MXM 3.0 Type-B
SLI options		2-way
API support
DirectX	11.2 (11_0)	10.1
OpenGL	4.4	2.1
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	1 GB	1 GB
Memory bandwidth	14.4 GB / s	51.2 GB / s
Memory bus width	64 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	1800 MHz
Memory type	DDR3	DDR3, GDDR3, GDDR5
Shared memory		0
Technologies
CUDA
HybridPower
MXM 3.0 Type-B
Power management		8.0
PowerMizer 8.0
SLI