NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 vs AMD Radeon HD 8490

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 vs AMD Radeon HD 8490 1 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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AMD Radeon HD 8490

Price

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$ 129.95

$ 39.00

$ 90.95 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

695 points

7622% significantly better overall score

9 points

Flux Core frame rate

Volumetric ray casting test, a computationally expensive method of rendering high-quality scenes

15 FPS

14 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

1 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

10 FPS

9 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

1 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

10 FPS

9 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

1 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

8 FPS

8 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

0 FPS

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Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

10713 points

1094% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

897 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

9924 points

1038% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

872 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1228 MHz

40% slightly higher core clock speed

875 MHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

30 W

16% slightly lower TDP

35 W

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

292nd of 586

570th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

11.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

4.4

GeForce GT 1030 vs Radeon HD 8490 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the GeForce GT 1030 beats the Radeon HD 8490 in gaming performance.

In our comparison, the GeForce GT 1030 has a slightly higher core clock speed. This is the frequency at which the graphics core is running at. While not necessarily an indicator of overall performance, this metric can be useful when comparing two GPUs based on the same architecture.

In addition, the GeForce GT 1030 has a slightly lower TDP at 30 W when compared to the Radeon HD 8490 at 35 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce GT 1030 over the Radeon HD 8490.