Radeon R7 M445 and Radeon HD 8490 OEM - video card comparison

Radeon R7 M445

Radeon HD 8490 OEM

Architecture

GCN (2011−2017)

TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)

GPU code name

Meso

Caicos

Market segment

Laptop

Desktop

Release date

May 2016

July 2013

Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

PCIe 2.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

None

Boost clock speed

920 MHz

Core clock speed

920 MHz

875 MHz

Floating-point performance

588.8 gflops

280.0 gflops

Manufacturing process technology

28 nm

40 nm

Number of transistors

1,550 million

370 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

320

160

Power consumption (TDP)

15-25 Watt

35 Watt

Texture fill rate

18.40

7.000

Memory type

GDDR5

DDR3

Maximum RAM amount

4 GB

1 GB

Memory bus width

64 Bit

Memory clock speed

2000 MHz

1800 MHz

Memory bandwidth

32 GB/s

14.4 GB/s

Shared memory

Display Connectors

No outputs

1x DVI, 1x DisplayPort

DirectX

12 (12_0)

11.2 (11_0)

OpenCL

2.0

1.2

OpenGL

4.6

4.4

Shader Model

6.0

5.0

Vulkan

1.2.131

N/A