Xe DG1 (iDG1LP) Mobile vs Radeon RX 490M

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking	not rated	not rated
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Architecture	Polaris (2016−2019)	Gen. 12 Xe (2020)
GPU code name	Polaris	iDG1LPDEV
Market segment	Laptop	Laptop
Release date	1 August 2016 (8 years ago)	1 March 2020 (4 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	no data	96
Boost clock speed	no data	1500 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm	14 nm

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

large

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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	GDDR5	GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount	no data	3 GB
Shared memory	-	-

API compatibility

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

DirectX

12

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Pros & cons summary

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Recency

1 August 2016

1 March 2020

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