Radeon RX 490M and Apple M1 GPU - video card comparison

Radeon RX 490M

Apple M1 GPU

Architecture

Polaris (2016−2019)

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GPU code name

Polaris

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Market segment

Laptop

Laptop

Release date

August 2016

November 2020

Manufacturing process technology

14 nm

5 nm

Pipelines / CUDA cores

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8

Memory type

GDDR5

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Shared memory

-

+

DirectX

12

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