NVIDIA GeForce Go 7900 GS SLI vs AMD Radeon RX 490M
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 | Polaris (2016−2019) | G7x (2005−2007) |
GPU code name | Polaris | G71M |
Market segment | Laptop | Laptop |
Release date | 1 August 2016 (7 years old) | 1 June 2006 (17 years old) |
Current price | $479 | no data |
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.
Core clock speed | no data | 14 MHz |
Boost clock speed | no data | 375 MHz |
Number of transistors | no data | 556 Million |
Manufacturing process technology | 14 nm | 90 nm |
Power consumption (TDP) | no data | 40 Watt |
Size and compatibility
Information on Radeon RX 490M and GeForce Go 7900 GS SLI 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 |
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 | GDDR5 | 256 |
Maximum RAM amount | no data | 1 GB |
Memory bus width | no data | 500 Bit |
Shared memory | - | - |
API support
List of supported graphics and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.
DirectX | 12 | GDDR3 |
Advantages and disadvantages
Recency | 1 August 2016 | 1 June 2006 |
Chip lithography | 14 nm | 90 nm |
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