AMD Radeon RX 540X Mobile vs AMD Radeon HD 8490 OEM

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon RX 540X Mobile 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, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: Geekbench - OpenCL, PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, 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 RX 540X Mobile

AMD Radeon HD 8490 OEM

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX 540X Mobile

Videocard is newer: launch date 4 year(s) 8 month(s) later
Around 28% higher core clock speed: 1124 MHz vs 875 MHz
5571.4x more texture fill rate: 39.00 GTexel/s vs 7 GTexel / s
3.2x more pipelines: 512 vs 160
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 14 nm vs 40 nm
4x more maximum memory size: 4 GB vs 1 GB
3.3x more memory clock speed: 6000 MHz vs 1800 MHz
9.9x better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 8663 vs 871

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	3 April 2018 vs 23 July 2013
Core clock speed	1124 MHz vs 875 MHz
Texture fill rate	39.00 GTexel/s vs 7 GTexel / s
Pipelines	512 vs 160
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm vs 40 nm
Maximum memory size	4 GB vs 1 GB
Memory clock speed	6000 MHz vs 1800 MHz
Benchmarks
Geekbench - OpenCL	8663 vs 871

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 8490 OEM

224x better floating-point performance: 280.0 gflops vs 1.25 TFLOPs
Around 43% lower typical power consumption: 35 Watt vs 50 Watt

Floating-point performance	280.0 gflops vs 1.25 TFLOPs
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	35 Watt vs 50 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon RX 540X Mobile
GPU 2: AMD Radeon HD 8490 OEM

Geekbench - OpenCL

GPU 1

GPU 2

8663

871

Name	AMD Radeon RX 540X Mobile	AMD Radeon HD 8490 OEM
Geekbench - OpenCL	8663	871
PassMark - G3D Mark		263
PassMark - G2D Mark		174
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 RX 540X Mobile	AMD Radeon HD 8490 OEM
Essentials
Architecture	GCN 4.0	TeraScale 2
Code name	Lexa	Caicos
Design	Radeon RX 500X Series
GCN generation	4th Gen
Launch date	3 April 2018	23 July 2013
Place in performance rating	1535	1536
Type	Desktop, Laptop	Desktop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1219 MHz
Compute units	8
Core clock speed	1124 MHz	875 MHz
Floating-point performance	1.25 TFLOPs	280.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm	40 nm
Pipelines	512	160
Pixel fill rate	19.50 GP/s
Render output units	16
Stream Processors	512
Texture fill rate	39.00 GTexel/s	7 GTexel / s
Texture Units	32
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	50 Watt	35 Watt
Transistor count	2,200 million	370 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	1x DVI, 1x DisplayPort
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x8	PCIe 2.0 x16
Length		168 mm
Supplementary power connectors		None
API support
DirectX	12	11.2 (11_0)
OpenGL	4.5	4.4
Vulkan
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	4 GB	1 GB
Memory bandwidth	96 GB/s	14.4 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 bit	64 Bit
Memory clock speed	6000 MHz	1800 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	DDR3
Technologies
4K H264 Decode
4K H264 Encode
AMD Radeon™ Chill
AMD Radeon™ ReLive
AppAcceleration
FreeSync
H265/HEVC Decode
H265/HEVC Encode
HDMI 4K Support