Radeon RX 490M and NV40 - video card comparison

Radeon RX 490M

NV40

Architecture

Polaris (2016−2019)

Curie (2003−2013)

GPU code name

Polaris

NV40

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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222 million

Memory type

GDDR5

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Shared memory

-

-

DirectX

12

9.0c (9_3)

OpenCL

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N/A

OpenGL

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2.0 (full) Shader Model-3.0

Vulkan

-

N/A

PureVideo HD

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VP1