AMD Radeon HD 8490 OEM vs NVIDIA NVS 315

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon HD 8490 OEM and NVIDIA NVS 315 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).

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 8490 OEM

• Videocard is newer: launch date 4 month(s) later
• Around 67% higher core clock speed: 875 MHz vs 523 MHz
• Around 67% higher texture fill rate: 7 GTexel / s vs 4.184 GTexel / s
• 3.3x more pipelines: 160 vs 48
• 2.8x better floating-point performance: 280.0 gflops vs 100.4 gflops
• Around 3% higher memory clock speed: 1800 MHz vs 1750 MHz
• Around 31% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s): 104.327 vs 79.479
• Around 10% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s): 0.239 vs 0.217
• Around 20% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s): 5.628 vs 4.705
• 3.6x better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s): 23.365 vs 6.573
• Around 45% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames): 672 vs 465
• Around 14% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames): 1078 vs 942
• Around 51% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 2093 vs 1382
• Around 45% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps): 672 vs 465
• Around 14% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps): 1078 vs 942
• Around 51% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 2093 vs 1382

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA NVS 315

• Around 84% lower typical power consumption: 19 Watt vs 35 Watt
• Around 14% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 300 vs 263
• Around 3% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 179 vs 174
• Around 1% better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 882 vs 871
• Around 50% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s): 3.025 vs 2.021

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon HD 8490 OEM
GPU 2: NVIDIA NVS 315

PassMark - G3D Mark	GPU 1 GPU 2	263 300
PassMark - G2D Mark	GPU 1 GPU 2	174 179
Geekbench - OpenCL	GPU 1 GPU 2	871 882
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	2.021 3.025
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	104.327 79.479
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	0.239 0.217
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	5.628 4.705
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	23.365 6.573
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	672 465
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	1078 942
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	2093 1382
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	672 465
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	1078 942
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	2093 1382

Compare specifications (specs)