Radeon RX 490M vs GeForce Go 7800

General info

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

Place in performance ranking	not rated	not rated
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Architecture	G7x (2005−2007)	Polaris (2016−2019)
GPU code name	G70M	Polaris
Market segment	Laptop	Laptop
Release date	1 March 2006 (18 years ago)	1 August 2016 (7 years ago)
Current price	$207	$479

Technical specs

General performance parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider their benchmark and gaming test results. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores	22	no data
Core clock speed	6 MHz	no data
Boost clock speed	400 MHz	no data
Number of transistors	302 million	no data
Manufacturing process technology	110 nm	14 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	35 Watt	no data
Texture fill rate	6.400	no data

Size and compatibility

Information on GeForce Go 7800 and Radeon RX 490M compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For notebook video cards it's notebook size, connection slot and bus, if the video card is inserted into a slot instead of being soldered to the notebook motherboard.

Laptop size	large	large
Interface	PCIe 1.0 x16	no data

Memory

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 type	GDDR3	GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount	256 MB	no data
Memory bus width	256 Bit	no data
Memory clock speed	1100 MHz	no data
Memory bandwidth	35.2 GB/s	no data
Shared memory	-	-

Video outputs and ports

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectors

No outputs

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API support

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

DirectX	9.0c (9_3)	12
Shader Model	3.0	no data
OpenGL	2.1	no data
OpenCL	N/A	no data
Vulkan	N/A	no data

Advantages and disadvantages

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Recency	1 March 2006	1 August 2016
Chip lithography	110 nm	14 nm

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