Compare AMD Radeon HD 8490 1 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GT, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?
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Volumetric ray casting test, a computationally expensive method of rendering high-quality scenes
Randomly generated noise sphere test
Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering
Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test
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Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU
Ranking in the hardwareDB database
The type of memory used by this chip
Maximum version of DirectX supported
Maximum version of OpenGL supported
For gaming, the GeForce 9500 GT graphics card is better than the Radeon HD 8490 in our tests.
In addition, the Radeon HD 8490 has a much lower TDP at 35 W when compared to the GeForce 9500 GT at 50 W. This is not a measure of performance, but rather the amount of heat generated by the chip when running at its highest speed.
In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the GeForce 9500 GT is better than the Radeon HD 8490.
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