NVIDIA Tegra 4 vs AMD Radeon HD 8490 OEM

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA Tegra 4 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, 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).

NVIDIA Tegra 4

AMD Radeon HD 8490 OEM

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Tegra 4

A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 40 nm
Around 75% lower typical power consumption: 20 Watt vs 35 Watt

Manufacturing process technology	28 nm vs 40 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	20 Watt vs 35 Watt

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 8490 OEM

Around 30% higher core clock speed: 875 MHz vs 672 MHz

Core clock speed	875 MHz vs 672 MHz

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA Tegra 4
GPU 2: AMD Radeon HD 8490 OEM

Name	NVIDIA Tegra 4	AMD Radeon HD 8490 OEM
PassMark - G3D Mark		263
PassMark - G2D Mark		174
Geekbench - OpenCL		871
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)

	NVIDIA Tegra 4	AMD Radeon HD 8490 OEM
Essentials
Architecture	GeForce ULP	TeraScale 2
Code name	Tegra 4	Caicos
Launch date	1 August 2013	23 July 2013
Place in performance rating	not rated	1536
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Technical info
Core clock speed	672 MHz	875 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	40 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	20 Watt	35 Watt
Transistor count	11 million	370 million
Floating-point performance		280.0 gflops
Pipelines		160
Texture fill rate		7 GTexel / s
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	1x DVI, 1x DisplayPort
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	IGP	PCIe 2.0 x16
Length		168 mm
Supplementary power connectors		None
API support
DirectX	N / A	11.2 (11_0)
OpenGL	ES 3.0	4.4
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