Radeon RX 490M and TU117 - video card comparison

Radeon RX 490M

TU117

Architecture

Polaris (2016−2019)

Turing (2018−2021)

GPU code name

Polaris

TU117

Market segment

Laptop

Desktop

Release date

August 2016

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Manufacturing process technology

14 nm

12 nm

Number of transistors

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4,700 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

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1024

Memory type

GDDR5

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Shared memory

-

-

DirectX

12

12 (12_1)

CUDA

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7.5

OpenCL

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3.0

OpenGL

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4.6

Shader Model

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6.7

Vulkan

-

1.3

NVENC

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6th Gen

PureVideo HD

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VP10