AMD Radeon R5 M430 vs AMD Radeon HD 8490

Compare AMD Radeon R5 M430 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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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

213 points

2266% 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

2 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

1 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

0 FPS

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Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

5314 points

492% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

897 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

5443 points

524% 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

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

415th of 586

570th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2016 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

11.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

4.4

Radeon R5 M430 vs Radeon HD 8490 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Radeon R5 M430 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 conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the Radeon R5 M430 over the Radeon HD 8490.