Radeon RX 490M and Radeon RX 6850M XT - video card comparison

Radeon RX 490M

Radeon RX 6850M XT

Architecture

Polaris (2016−2019)

RDNA 2 (2020−2022)

GPU code name

Polaris

Navi 22

Market segment

Laptop

Laptop

Release date

August 2016

January 2022

Interface

-

PCIe 4.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

-

None

Boost clock speed

-

2463 MHz

Manufacturing process technology

14 nm

7 nm

Number of transistors

-

17,200 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

-

2560

Power consumption (TDP)

-

145 Watt

Texture fill rate

-

413.0

Memory type

GDDR5

GDDR6

Maximum RAM amount

-

12 GB

Memory bus width

-

192 Bit

Memory clock speed

-

18000 MHz

Memory bandwidth

-

384.0 GB/s

Shared memory

-

-

Display Connectors

-

No outputs

DirectX

12

12 Ultimate (12_2)

OpenCL

-

2.1

OpenGL

-

4.6

Shader Model

-

6.5

Vulkan

-

1.2