Radeon RX 490M vs 860M

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking	426	not rated
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Power efficiency	54.65	no data
Architecture	RDNA 3.5 (2024−2025)	Polaris (2016−2019)
GPU code name	Strix Point	Polaris
Market segment	Laptop	Laptop
Release date	March 2025 (recently)	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 cores	512	no data
Core clock speed	400 MHz	no data
Boost clock speed	3000 MHz	no data
Number of transistors	34,000 million	no data
Manufacturing process technology	4 nm	14 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	15 Watt	no data
Texture fill rate	96.00	no data
Floating-point processing power	3.072 TFLOPS	no data
ROPs	8	no data
TMUs	32	no data
Ray Tracing Cores	8	no data

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 size	no data	large
Interface	PCIe 4.0 x8	no data
Supplementary power connectors	None	no data

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 type	System Shared	GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount	System Shared	no data
Memory bus width	System Shared	no data
Memory clock speed	System Shared	no data
Shared memory	+	-

Connectivity and outputs

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

Portable Device Dependent

no data

API and SDK compatibility

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

DirectX	12 Ultimate (12_2)	12
Shader Model	6.8	no data
OpenGL	4.6	no data
OpenCL	2.1	no data
Vulkan	1.3	-

Pros & cons summary

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Chip lithography

4 nm

14 nm

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