Radeon RX 490M and NV36 - video card comparison

Radeon RX 490M

NV36

Architecture

Polaris (2016−2019)

Rankine (2003−2005)

GPU code name

Polaris

NV36

Market segment

Laptop

Desktop

Release date

August 2016

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Manufacturing process technology

14 nm

130 nm

Number of transistors

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82 million

Memory type

GDDR5

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Shared memory

-

-

DirectX

12

9.0a

OpenCL

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N/A

OpenGL

-

1.5 (full) Vulkan-N/A