Radeon RX Vega M vs RX 490M

Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated376
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiencyno data80.28
ArchitecturePolaris (2016−2019)GCN 5.0 (2017−2020)
GPU code namePolarisVega
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date1 August 2016 (9 years ago)1 February 2018 (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 coresno data512
Core clock speedno data720 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1190 MHz
Number of transistorsno data4,500 million
Manufacturing process technology14 nm14 nm
Power consumption (TDP)no data15 Watt
Texture fill rateno data38.08
ROPsno data8
TMUsno data32

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 sizelargeno data
Interfaceno dataIGP
Widthno dataIGP

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 typeGDDR5System Shared
Maximum RAM amountno dataSystem Shared
Memory bus widthno dataSystem Shared
Memory clock speedno dataSystem Shared
Shared memory-no data

API and SDK support

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

DirectX1212.0
Shader Modelno data5.0
OpenGLno data4.6
OpenCLno data2.0

Pros & cons summary


Recency 1 August 2016 1 February 2018

RX Vega M has an age advantage of 1 year.

We couldn't decide between Radeon RX 490M and Radeon RX Vega M. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon RX 490M is a notebook graphics card while Radeon RX Vega M is a desktop one.

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