AMD Radeon R5 430 vs AMD Radeon HD 8490

Compare AMD Radeon R5 430 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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$ 31.99

$ 7.01 slightly less expensive

$ 39.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

185 points

1955% significantly better overall score

9 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

5 FPS

3 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

1 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

3 FPS

1 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

1 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

4 FPS

3 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

1 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

1 FPS

0 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

0 FPS

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Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

5855 points

552% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

897 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

5652 points

548% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

872 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

730 MHz

875 MHz

19% slightly higher core clock speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

50 W

35 W

42% much lower TDP

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

437th of 586

569th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2016 June

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

11.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

4.4

Radeon R5 430 vs Radeon HD 8490 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Radeon R5 430 beats the Radeon HD 8490 in gaming performance.

The Radeon HD 8490 has a slightly 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.

In addition, the Radeon HD 8490 has a much lower TDP at 35 W when compared to the Radeon R5 430 at 50 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the Radeon R5 430 is faster than the Radeon HD 8490.