AMD Radeon R5 M420 vs AMD Radeon HD 8490 OEM

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon R5 M420 and AMD Radeon HD 8490 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, GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), 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).

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon R5 M420

• Videocard is newer: launch date 2 year(s) 9 month(s) later
• 2.4x more texture fill rate: 17.1 GTexel / s vs 7 GTexel / s
• 2x more pipelines: 320 vs 160
• Around 95% better floating-point performance: 547.2 gflops vs 280.0 gflops
• A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 40 nm
• 4x more maximum memory size: 4 GB vs 1 GB
• Around 11% higher memory clock speed: 2000 MHz vs 1800 MHz
• Around 90% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 501 vs 263
• 16.2x better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 14165 vs 872
• Around 45% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames): 972 vs 672
• 2.8x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames): 2979 vs 1078
• 2.8x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps): 2979 vs 1078
• Around 51% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 3165 vs 2093
• Around 51% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 3165 vs 2093

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 8490 OEM

• Around 12% higher core clock speed: 875 MHz vs 780 MHz
• Around 17% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 174 vs 149
• 40.7x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps): 672 vs 16.5

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon R5 M420
GPU 2: AMD Radeon HD 8490 OEM

PassMark - G3D Mark	GPU 1 GPU 2	501 263
PassMark - G2D Mark	GPU 1 GPU 2	149 174
Geekbench - OpenCL	GPU 1 GPU 2	14165 872
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	972 672
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	16.5 672
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	2979 1078
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	2979 1078
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3165 2093
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3165 2093

Compare specifications (specs)