GeForce 8600M GT and Radeon RX 490M - video card comparison

GeForce 8600M GT

Radeon RX 490M

Architecture

G8x (2007−2008)

Polaris (2016−2019)

GPU code name

G84M

Polaris

Market segment

Laptop

Laptop

Release date

June 2007

August 2016

Interface

MXM-II

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Core clock speed

475 MHz

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Floating-point performance

60.8 gflops

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Manufacturing process technology

80 nm

14 nm

Number of transistors

289 million

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Pipelines / CUDA cores

32

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Power consumption (TDP)

20 Watt

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Texture fill rate

7.600

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Memory type

GDDR3, GDDR2

GDDR5

Maximum RAM amount

512 MB

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Memory bus width

128 Bit

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Memory clock speed

700 MHz

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Memory bandwidth

12.8 GB/s

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Shared memory

-

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Display Connectors

No outputs

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DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

12

CUDA

1.1

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OpenCL

1.1

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OpenGL

3.3

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Shader Model

4.0

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Vulkan

N/A

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