AMD Radeon HD 8490 OEM vs NVIDIA GeForce Go 7950 GTX

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Graphics Processor

GPU model Caicos G71
GPU variant Caicos XTX
Architecture TeraScale 2 Curie
Foundry TSMC TSMC
Manufacturing process 40 nm 90 nm
Number of transistors 370 million 278 million
Die size 67 mm² 196 mm²

Graphics Card

Release date Jul 23rd, 2013
Generation Sea Islands
Production End-of-life
Interface PCIe 2.0 x16
Predecessor Southern Islands
Successor Volcanic Islands

Clocks

GPU clock 875 MHz 575 MHz
Memory clock 900 MHz 1800 Mbps effective 700 MHz 1400 Mbps effective

Memory Configuration

Memory size 1024 MB 512 MB
Memory type DDR3 GDDR3
Memory bus width 64 bit 256 bit
Bandwidth 14.40 GB/s 44.80 GB/s

Render Configuration

Shading units 160
TMUs 8 24
ROPs 4 16
Compute units 2
Cache L1 8 KB (per CU)
Cache L2 128 KB
Pixel shaders 24
Vertex shaders 8

Performance

Pixel rate 3.500 GPixel/s 9.200 GPixel/s
Texture rate 7.000 GTexel/s 13.80 GTexel/s
FP32 (float) performance 280.0 GFLOPS
Vertex rate 1.150 GVertices/s

Dimensions & Outputs

Slot width Single-slot MXM Module
Length 168 mm 6.6 inches
TDP 35 W 45 W
Suggested PSU 200 W
Outputs 1x DVI1x DisplayPort No outputs
Power connectors None None
Board number C369, C553 E466, P469

API Support & Features

DirectX 11.2 (11_0) 9.0c (9_3)
OpenGL 4.4 2.1
OpenCL 1.2
Vulkan
Shader model 5.0 3.0

Other Features

Mobile graphics

Release date Oct 12th, 2006
Generation GeForce Go 7 (Go 7000)
Production End-of-life
Interface MXM-III
Predecessor GeForce Go 6
Successor GeForce 8M

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