AMD Radeon R7 250 vs AMD Radeon HD 8490

Compare AMD Radeon R7 250 2 GB 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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$ 100.01

$ 39.00

$ 61.01 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

352 points

3811% significantly better overall score

9 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

9 FPS

7 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

1 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

5 FPS

4 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

1 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

7 FPS

6 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

1 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

2 FPS

2 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

0 FPS

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Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

10280 points

1046% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

897 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

9476 points

986% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

872 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1000 MHz

14% slightly higher core clock speed

875 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

2 GiB

100% significantly more memory

1 GiB

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

75 W

35 W

114% significantly lower TDP

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

360th of 586

568th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon R7 200 Series

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

4.4

Radeon R7 250 vs Radeon HD 8490 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the Radeon R7 250 GPU is faster than the Radeon HD 8490 in gaming.

Our database shows that the Radeon R7 250 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.

Next up, in terms of GPU memory, the Radeon R7 250 has significantly more memory with 2 GiB of memory compared to 1 GiB. If you're planning at playing games at high resolutions with high-quality textures, you will need a lot of memory.

In addition, the Radeon HD 8490 has a significantly lower TDP at 35 W when compared to the Radeon R7 250 at 75 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the Radeon R7 250 over the Radeon HD 8490.