NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 490

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 490

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1070 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 1070 's Advantages

Boost Clock1683MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 1536GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.3GB/s vs 164.0GB/s)

1440 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (150W vs 365W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1070 +454%

6.463 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 490

1.166 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1070

VS

GeForce GTX 490

Graphics Card

Jun 2016

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

-

1683 MHz

Boost Clock

-

2002 MHz

Memory Clock

854 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

1536MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

384bit

256.3GB/s

Bandwidth

164.0GB/s

Render Config

-

15

SM Count

15

1920

Shading Units

480

120

TMUs

60

64

ROPs

48

-

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

2 MB

L2 Cache

768 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

107.7 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

18.24 GPixel/s

202.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

36.48 GTexel/s

101.0 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

6.463 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1166 GFLOPS

202.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

145.8 GFLOPS

Board Design

150W

TDP

365W

450 W

Suggested PSU

750 W

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

Outputs

3x DVI 1x mini-DisplayPort

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GP104

GPU Name

GF100

GP104-200-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

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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