AMD Radeon HD 8490 Benchmark and Specs

AMD Radeon HD 8490

The Radeon HD 8490 is a GPU from AMD. This chip has a bad gaming score with 9 points in our GPU benchmark.

The Radeon HD 8490 has 1 GiB of memory. If you plan on gaming at higher resolutions with higher quality textures, more memory is important. Without enough memory, performance will be degraded.

In terms of clock speed, the Radeon HD 8490 GPU core runs at a frequency of 875 MHz. The core clock is directly related to the performance of a GPU, the higher the clock, the more processing can be done per second. A higher clock does not guarantee better performance by itself, this also depends on the number of shading units and other elements of the pipeline.

As for rendering API support, the Radeon HD 8490 supports up to DirectX 11. In addition, in cross-platform titles, OpenGL 4.4 features are supported. Newer APIs are usually more efficient, allowing for better performance in games and better graphical effects.

Power and thermals for the AMD Radeon HD 8490 are a TDP (Thermal Design Power) of 35 watts. This measures the amount of heat the GPU produces when running at 100%. This isn't a measure of power consumption, but it's a good estimate.

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