AMD Radeon RX Vega 7 vs AMD Radeon HD 8490 OEM

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon RX Vega 7 and AMD Radeon HD 8490 OEM videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, API support, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, Memory. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score, 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 Vega 7

AMD Radeon HD 8490 OEM

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX Vega 7

Videocard is newer: launch date 6 year(s) 5 month(s) later
2.8x more pipelines: 448 vs 160
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 7 nm vs 40 nm
12.8x better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 11203 vs 872

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	7 Jan 2020 vs 23 July 2013
Pipelines	448 vs 160
Manufacturing process technology	7 nm vs 40 nm
Benchmarks
Geekbench - OpenCL	11203 vs 872

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon RX Vega 7
GPU 2: AMD Radeon HD 8490 OEM

Geekbench - OpenCL

GPU 1

GPU 2

11203

872

Name	AMD Radeon RX Vega 7	AMD Radeon HD 8490 OEM
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	1069
Geekbench - OpenCL	11203	872
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 Vega 7	AMD Radeon HD 8490 OEM
Essentials
Architecture	Vega	TeraScale 2
Code name	Vega Raven Ridge	Caicos
Launch date	7 Jan 2020	23 July 2013
Place in performance rating	1317	1541
Type	Laptop	Desktop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1600 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	7 nm	40 nm
Pipelines	448	160
Core clock speed		875 MHz
Floating-point performance		280.0 gflops
Texture fill rate		7 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)		35 Watt
Transistor count		370 million
API support
DirectX	12.1	11.2 (11_0)
OpenGL		4.4
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors		1x DVI, 1x DisplayPort
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface		PCIe 2.0 x16
Length		168 mm
Supplementary power connectors		None
Memory
Maximum RAM amount		1 GB
Memory bandwidth		14.4 GB / s
Memory bus width		64 Bit
Memory clock speed		1800 MHz
Memory type		DDR3