GeForce Go 6800 and Radeon RX 490M - video card comparison

GeForce Go 6800

Radeon RX 490M

Architecture

Curie (2003−2013)

Polaris (2016−2019)

GPU code name

NV42M

Polaris

Market segment

Laptop

Laptop

Release date

February 2005

August 2016

Interface

MXM-III

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Supplementary power connectors

None

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Boost clock speed

300 MHz

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Core clock speed

5 MHz

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Manufacturing process technology

130 nm

14 nm

Number of transistors

222 million

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Pipelines / CUDA cores

17

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Power consumption (TDP)

45 Watt

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Texture fill rate

3.600

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Memory type

128 / 256

GDDR5

Maximum RAM amount

256 MB

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Memory bus width

128 / 256 Bit

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Memory clock speed

1100 MBps

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Memory bandwidth

35.2 GB/s

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Shared memory

-

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Display Connectors

No outputs

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DirectX

9.0c (9_3)

12

OpenCL

N/A

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OpenGL

2.1

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Shader Model

3.0

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Vulkan

N/A

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