NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 490

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X NVIDIA GeForce GTX 490

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X and 1536MB VRAM GeForce GTX 490 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X 's Advantages

Boost Clock1709MHz

More VRAM (6GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.2GB/s vs 164.0GB/s)

800 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (120W vs 365W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X +275%

4.375 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 490

1.166 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X

VS

GeForce GTX 490

Graphics Card

Oct 2018

Release Date

Unknown

GeForce 10

Generation

GeForce 400

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1506 MHz

Base Clock

-

1709 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1001 MHz

Memory Clock

854 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

1536MB

GDDR5X

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

384bit

192.2GB/s

Bandwidth

164.0GB/s

Render Config

10

SM Count

15

-

Compute Units

-

1280

Shading Units

480

80

TMUs

60

48

ROPs

48

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

1536 KB

L2 Cache

768 KB

Theoretical Performance

82.03 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

18.24 GPixel/s

136.7 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

36.48 GTexel/s

68.36 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

4.375 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1166 GFLOPS

136.7 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

145.8 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GP104

GPU Name

GF100

GP104-150-KA-A1

GPU Variant

GF100-375-A3

Pascal

Architecture

Fermi

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

16 nm

Process Size

40 nm

7.2 billion

Transistors

3.1 billion

314 mm²

Die Size

529 mm²

Board Design

120W

TDP

365W

300 W

Suggested PSU

750 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

3x DVI 1x mini-DisplayPort

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

1.1

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

6.1

CUDA

2.0

6.4

Shader Model

5.1

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