NVIDIA GeForce GTX 490 vs ATI FireGL V5600
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1536MB VRAM GeForce GTX 490 and 512MB VRAM FireGL V5600 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 490 's Advantages
More VRAM (1536GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (164.0GB/s vs 35.20GB/s)
360 additional rendering cores
ATI FireGL V5600 's Advantages
Lower TDP (89W vs 365W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 490
+507%
1.166 TFLOPS
FireGL V5600
0.192 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Unknown
Release Date
Aug 2007
GeForce 400
Generation
FireGL
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
854 MHz
Memory Clock
1100 MHz
Memory
1536MB
Memory Size
512MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR4
384bit
Memory Bus
128bit
164.0GB/s
Bandwidth
35.20GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
3
15
SM Count
-
480
Shading Units
120
60
TMUs
8
48
ROPs
4
-
-
-
-
-
-
64 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
-
768 KB
L2 Cache
64 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
18.24 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
3.200 GPixel/s
36.48 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
6.400 GTexel/s
-
-
-
1166 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
192.0 GFLOPS
145.8 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
365W
TDP
89W
750 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
3x DVI
1x mini-DisplayPort
Outputs
2x DVI
2x 8-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
GF100
GPU Name
RV630
GF100-375-A3
GPU Variant
RV630 GL
Fermi
Architecture
TeraScale
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
40 nm
Process Size
65 nm
3.1 billion
Transistors
0.39 billion
529 mm²
Die Size
153 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (11_0)
DirectX
10.0 (10_0)
4.6
OpenGL
3.3
1.1
OpenCL
N/A
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
2.0
CUDA
-
5.1
Shader Model
4.0
