Radeon RX 490M vs GeForce 8200M G

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Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the ranking1419not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Architectureno dataPolaris (2016−2019)
GPU code nameMCP77MV MCP79MVLPolaris
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date3 June 2008 (16 years ago)1 August 2016 (8 years ago)

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores8no data
Core clock speed400 MHzno data
Manufacturing process technology80 nm14 nm

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

Laptop sizeno datalarge

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeno dataGDDR5
Shared memory+-

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX1012

Pros & cons summary


Recency 3 June 2008 1 August 2016
Chip lithography 80 nm 14 nm

RX 490M has an age advantage of 8 years, and a 471.4% more advanced lithography process.

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NVIDIA GeForce 8200M G
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AMD Radeon RX 490M
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