Radeon R5 M240 and Radeon HD 8490 OEM - video card comparison

Radeon R5 M240

Radeon HD 8490 OEM

Architecture

GCN (2011−2017)

TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)

GPU code name

Jet XT / Sun

Caicos

Market segment

Laptop

Desktop

Release date

September 2014

July 2013

Bus support

Not Listed

-

Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

PCIe 2.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

-

None

Core clock speed

1030 MHz

875 MHz

Floating-point performance

659.2 gflops

280.0 gflops

Manufacturing process technology

28 nm

40 nm

Number of transistors

690 million

370 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

320

160

Power consumption (TDP)

-

35 Watt

Texture fill rate

20.60

7.000

Memory type

Not Listed

DDR3

Maximum RAM amount

0 MB

1 GB

Memory bus width

Not Listed

64 Bit

Memory clock speed

-

1800 MHz

Memory bandwidth

14.4 GB/s

14.4 GB/s

Shared memory

-

-

Display Connectors

No outputs

1x DVI, 1x DisplayPort

Eyefinity

+

-

DirectX

DirectX® 11

11.2 (11_0)

Mantle

+

-

OpenCL

Not Listed

1.2

OpenGL

4.4

4.4

Shader Model

5.1

5.0

Vulkan

-

N/A

AppAcceleration

+

-

DualGraphics

1

-

Enduro

-

-

HD3D

+

-

PowerTune

+

-

Switchable graphics

1

-

TrueAudio

-

-

ZeroCore

+

-