AMD Radeon HD 8490 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090

Compare AMD Radeon HD 8490 1 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 24 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090

Price

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$ 39.00

$ 1780.99 significantly less expensive

$ 1819.99

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

9 points

33119 points

367888% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

1 FPS

787 FPS

785 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

1 FPS

382 FPS

380 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

1 FPS

567 FPS

566 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

0 FPS

318 FPS

318 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

872 points

318192 points

36389% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

875 MHz

2235 MHz

155% significantly higher core clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

1 GiB

24 GiB

2299% significantly more memory

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

35 W

1185% significantly lower TDP

450 W

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

570th of 586

2nd of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2022 October

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6X

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

11.0

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.4

4.6

Radeon HD 8490 vs GeForce RTX 4090 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce RTX 4090 GPU is faster than the Radeon HD 8490 in gaming.

The GeForce RTX 4090 has a significantly 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.

As stated by the manufacturer, the GeForce RTX 4090 has significantly more memory with 24 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 RTX 4090 at 450 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the GeForce RTX 4090 is faster than the Radeon HD 8490.