NVIDIA GeForce GT 630 vs AMD Radeon HD 8490

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GT 630 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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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 149.95
$ 39.00
$ 110.95 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

121 points
1244% significantly better overall score
9 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

3 FPS
1 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate
1 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

2 FPS
0 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate
1 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

2 FPS
1 FPS significantly higher City frame rate
1 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

1 FPS
0 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate
0 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

2654 points
195% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score
897 points
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

2712 points
211% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
872 points

Specifications

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

65 W
35 W
85% significantly lower TDP

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

488th of 586
569th of 586

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3
-

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0
11.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6
4.4

GeForce GT 630 vs Radeon HD 8490 benchmarks

For gaming, the GeForce GT 630 graphics card is better than the Radeon HD 8490 in our tests.

In addition, the Radeon HD 8490 has a significantly lower TDP at 35 W when compared to the GeForce GT 630 at 65 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce GT 630 over the Radeon HD 8490.

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