Radeon HD 8490 OEM and GeForce GT 520 OEM - video card comparison
Radeon HD 8490 OEM
GeForce GT 520 OEM
Architecture
TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)
Fermi 2.0 (2010−2014)
GPU code name
Caicos
GF119
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
July 2013
August 2012
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
None
None
Core clock speed
875 MHz
589 MHz
Floating-point performance
280.0 gflops
269.2 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
40 nm
Number of transistors
370 million
292 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
160
96
Power consumption (TDP)
35 Watt
29 Watt
Texture fill rate
7.000
9.424
Memory type
DDR3
DDR3
Maximum RAM amount
1 GB
1 GB
Memory bus width
64 Bit
64 Bit
Memory clock speed
1800 MHz
1000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
14.4 GB/s
8 GB/s
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x DisplayPort
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA
HDMI
-
+
DirectX
11.2 (11_0)
12 (11_0)
CUDA
-
2.1
OpenCL
1.2
1.1
OpenGL
4.4
4.6
Shader Model
5.0
5.1
Vulkan
N/A
N/A