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

Radeon RX 490M

GeForce 8600M GT SLI

Architecture

Polaris (2016−2019)

G8x (2007−2008)

GPU code name

Polaris

NB8P-GS

Market segment

Laptop

Laptop

Release date

August 2016

October 2007

Core clock speed

-

475 MHz

Manufacturing process technology

14 nm

80 nm

Number of transistors

-

598 Million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

-

64

Power consumption (TDP)

-

20 Watt

Memory type

GDDR5

GDDR3, GDDR2

Maximum RAM amount

-

1 GB

Memory bus width

-

128 Bit

Memory clock speed

-

700 MHz

Shared memory

-

-

DirectX

12

10