Radeon RX 490M vs Apple M5 Max 40-Core GPU

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Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the ranking52not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Architectureno dataPolaris (2016−2019)
GPU code nameno dataPolaris
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date3 March 2026 (recently)1 August 2016 (9 years ago)

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores40no data
Manufacturing process technologyno data14 nm

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

Laptop sizeno datalarge

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeLPDDR5x-8533GDDR5
Shared memoryno data-

API and SDK support

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectXno data12

Pros & cons summary


Recency 3 March 2026 1 August 2016

Apple M5 Max 40-Core GPU has an age advantage of 9 years.

We couldn't decide between M5 Max 40-Core GPU and Radeon RX 490M. We've got no test results to judge.

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