Radeon HD 8490 OEM vs GeForce 256 SDR
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 8490 OEM and 32MB VRAM GeForce 256 SDR to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Radeon HD 8490 OEM 's Advantages
Released 13 years and 9 months late
More VRAM (1024GB vs 32GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (14.40GB/s vs 1.144GB/s)
160 additional rendering cores
Score
Graphics Card
Jul 2013
Release Date
Oct 1999
Sea Islands
Generation
GeForce 256
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
AGP 4x
Clock Speeds
900 MHz
Memory Clock
143 MHz
Memory
1024MB
Memory Size
32MB
DDR3
Memory Type
SDR
64bit
Memory Bus
64bit
14.40GB/s
Bandwidth
1.144GB/s
Render Config
2
Compute Units
-
160
Shading Units
-
8
TMUs
4
4
ROPs
4
8 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
-
128 KB
L2 Cache
-
Theoretical Performance
3.500 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
480.0 MPixel/s
7.000 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
480.0 MTexel/s
280.0 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
-
Board Design
35W
TDP
Unknown
200 W
Suggested PSU
200 W
1x DVI
1x DisplayPort 1.1
Outputs
1x VGA
None
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
Caicos
GPU Name
NV10
Caicos XTX
GPU Variant
-
TeraScale 2
Architecture
Celsius
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
40 nm
Process Size
220 nm
0.37 billion
Transistors
0.017 billion
67 mm²
Die Size
139 mm²
Graphics Features
11.2 (11_0)
DirectX
7.0
4.4
OpenGL
1.2
1.2
OpenCL
N/A
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
5.0
Shader Model
-