NVIDIA Quadro K4200 vs AMD Radeon HD 8490

Compare NVIDIA Quadro K4200 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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$ 149.46

$ 39.00

$ 110.46 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

899 points

9888% significantly better overall score

9 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

20 FPS

18 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

1 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

13 FPS

11 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

1 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

14 FPS

13 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

1 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

10 FPS

10 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

0 FPS

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Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

11745 points

1209% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

897 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

12321 points

1312% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

872 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

780 MHz

875 MHz

12% slightly higher core clock speed

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

105 W

35 W

200% significantly lower TDP

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

271st of 586

570th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 July

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

11.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5

4.4

Quadro K4200 vs Radeon HD 8490 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the Quadro K4200 GPU is faster than the Radeon HD 8490 in gaming.

In our comparison, the Radeon HD 8490 has a slightly higher core clock speed. The core clock speed (or base speed) is the frequency at which the GPU core runs. This metric makes sense when comparing GPUs of a similar architecture or generation.

Next up, in terms of GPU memory, the Quadro K4200 has significantly more memory with 4 GiB of memory compared to 1 GiB. If you're planning at playing games at high resolutions with high-quality textures, you will need a lot of memory.

In addition, the Radeon HD 8490 has a significantly lower TDP at 35 W when compared to the Quadro K4200 at 105 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the Quadro K4200 over the Radeon HD 8490.