AMD Radeon Vega 7 vs AMD Radeon HD 8490 OEM

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

AMD Radeon Vega 7

AMD Radeon HD 8490 OEM

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon Vega 7

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
2x more maximum memory size: 2 GB vs 1 GB

Pipelines	448 vs 160
Manufacturing process technology	7 nm vs 40 nm
Maximum memory size	2 GB vs 1 GB

Compare benchmarks

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

Name	AMD Radeon Vega 7	AMD Radeon HD 8490 OEM
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	1262
PassMark - G3D Mark		263
PassMark - G2D Mark		174
Geekbench - OpenCL		872
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 Vega 7	AMD Radeon HD 8490 OEM
Essentials
Architecture	Vega	TeraScale 2
Code name	Renoir	Caicos
Launch date	Q1'2020	23 July 2013
Place in performance rating	1044	1541
Type	Laptop	Desktop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1900 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
Video outputs and ports
Number of simultaneous displays	3
Display Connectors		1x DVI, 1x DisplayPort
API support
DirectX	12.1	11.2 (11_0)
OpenGL		4.4
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB	1 GB
Memory bandwidth		14.4 GB / s
Memory bus width		64 Bit
Memory clock speed		1800 MHz
Memory type		DDR3
Technologies
4K H264 Decode
4K H264 Encode
H265/HEVC Decode
H265/HEVC Encode
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface		PCIe 2.0 x16
Length		168 mm
Supplementary power connectors		None