AMD Radeon HD 8490 OEM vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 OEM

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon HD 8490 OEM and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 OEM 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), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 8490 OEM

• Videocard is newer: launch date 11 month(s) later
• Around 6% higher core clock speed: 875 MHz vs 823 MHz
• 3.7x lower typical power consumption: 35 Watt vs 130 Watt

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 OEM

• 12.2x more texture fill rate: 85.25 GTexel / s vs 7 GTexel / s
• 7.2x more pipelines: 1152 vs 160
• 7.3x better floating-point performance: 2,046 gflops vs 280.0 gflops
• A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 40 nm
• Around 50% higher maximum memory size: 1536 MB vs 1 GB
• 3.1x more memory clock speed: 5600 MHz vs 1800 MHz
• 16.2x better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s): 32.718 vs 2.021
• 9.8x better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s): 1021.371 vs 104.327
• 13.2x better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s): 3.143 vs 0.239
• 10x better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s): 56.509 vs 5.628
• 2.9x better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s): 67.697 vs 23.365
• 8.9x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames): 5983 vs 672
• 3.4x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames): 3665 vs 1078
• Around 59% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 3325 vs 2093
• 8.9x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps): 5983 vs 672
• 3.4x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps): 3665 vs 1078
• Around 59% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 3325 vs 2093

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon HD 8490 OEM
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 OEM

CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	2.021 32.718
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	104.327 1021.371
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	0.239 3.143
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	5.628 56.509
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	23.365 67.697
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	672 5983
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	1078 3665
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	2093 3325
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	672 5983
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	1078 3665
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	2093 3325

Compare specifications (specs)