Radeon RX 490M vs GeForce 9400M GeForceBoost

Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot ratednot rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Architectureno dataPolaris (2016−2019)
GPU code nameno dataPolaris
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 cores24no data
Manufacturing process technology65 nm14 nm

Form factor & compatibility

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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
Memory bus width64 Bitno data
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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 65 nm 14 nm

RX 490M has an age advantage of 8 years, and a 364.3% more advanced lithography process.

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NVIDIA GeForce 9400M GeForceBoost
GeForce 9400M GeForceBoost
AMD Radeon RX 490M
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