Radeon RX 490M and GT218 - video card comparison

Radeon RX 490M

GT218

Architecture

Polaris (2016−2019)

Tesla 2.0 (2007−2013)

GPU code name

Polaris

GT218

Market segment

Laptop

Desktop

Release date

August 2016

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Manufacturing process technology

14 nm

40 nm

Number of transistors

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260 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

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16

Memory type

GDDR5

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Shared memory

-

-

DirectX

12

11.1 (10_1)

CUDA

-

1.2

OpenCL

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1.1

OpenGL

-

3.3

Shader Model

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4.1

Vulkan

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N/A

PureVideo HD

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VP4