NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti vs AMD Radeon HD 8490

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti 4 GB 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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$ 206.47

$ 39.00

$ 167.47 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

1456 points

16077% significantly better overall score

9 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

31 FPS

30 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

1 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

21 FPS

20 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

1 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

22 FPS

21 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

1 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

17 FPS

16 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

0 FPS

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Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

22192 points

2374% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

897 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

21530 points

2369% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

872 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1290 MHz

47% significantly higher core clock speed

875 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

4 GiB

300% significantly more memory

1 GiB

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

75 W

35 W

114% significantly lower TDP

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

237th of 586

569th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2016 October

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

4.5

4.4

GeForce GTX 1050 Ti vs Radeon HD 8490 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce GTX 1050 Ti GPU is faster than the Radeon HD 8490 in gaming.

In our comparison, the GeForce GTX 1050 Ti has a significantly 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.

Furthermore, the spec sheet for both these GPUs show that the GeForce GTX 1050 Ti has significantly more memory with 4 GiB of memory compared to 1 GiB. Lots of memory is good when playing at high resolutions or with many monitors.

In addition, the Radeon HD 8490 has a significantly lower TDP at 35 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 1050 Ti at 75 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the GeForce GTX 1050 Ti is faster than the Radeon HD 8490.