GeForce Go 7900 GS SLI vs Radeon RX 490M

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
ArchitecturePolaris (2016−2019)G7x (2005−2006)
GPU code namePolarisG71M
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date1 August 2016 (8 years ago)1 June 2006 (18 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 coresno data54
Core clock speedno data14 MHz
Boost clock speedno data375 MHz
Number of transistorsno data556 Million
Manufacturing process technology14 nm90 nm
Power consumption (TDP)no data40 Watt

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 sizelargelarge

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 typeGDDR5GDDR3
Maximum RAM amountno data1 GB
Memory bus widthno data256 Bit
Memory clock speedno data500 MHz
Shared memory--

API compatibility

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

DirectX12GDDR3

Pros & cons summary


Recency 1 August 2016 1 June 2006
Chip lithography 14 nm 90 nm

RX 490M has an age advantage of 10 years, and a 542.9% more advanced lithography process.

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AMD Radeon RX 490M
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