Radeon RX 490M vs HD 7640G + HD 7670M Dual Graphics

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking	955	not rated
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Architecture	Terascale 3 (2010−2013)	Polaris (2016−2019)
GPU code name	no data	Polaris
Market segment	Laptop	Laptop
Release date	15 May 2012 (12 years ago)	1 August 2016 (8 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 cores	736	no data
Core clock speed	655 / 600 MHz	no data
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	14 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 size

medium sized

large

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 type	no data	GDDR5
Memory bus width	128 Bit	no data
Memory clock speed	1800 MHz	no data
Shared memory	+	-

API compatibility

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

DirectX

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Pros & cons summary

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Recency	15 May 2012	1 August 2016
Chip lithography	40 nm	14 nm

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