NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER vs AMD Radeon HD 8490

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER 6 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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$ 191.88

$ 39.00

$ 152.88 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

3755 points

41622% significantly better overall score

9 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

84 FPS

82 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

1 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

50 FPS

48 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

1 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

61 FPS

60 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

1 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

38 FPS

37 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

0 FPS

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Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

60772 points

6675% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

897 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

64068 points

7247% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

872 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1530 MHz

74% significantly higher core clock speed

875 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

6 GiB

499% significantly more memory

1 GiB

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

125 W

35 W

257% significantly lower TDP

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

130th of 586

570th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 October

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

11.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

4.4

GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER vs Radeon HD 8490 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER GPU is faster than the Radeon HD 8490 in gaming.

In our comparison, the GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER 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.

Next up, in terms of GPU memory, the GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER has significantly more memory with 6 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 1660 SUPER at 125 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 GTX 1660 SUPER over the Radeon HD 8490.