NVIDIA GeForce GTX 490 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 490

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1536MB VRAM GeForce GTX 490 and 5GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 490 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (164.0GB/s vs 160.2GB/s)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB 's Advantages

Boost Clock1709MHz

More VRAM (5GB vs 1536GB)

800 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (120W vs 365W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 490

1.166 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB +275%

4.375 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 490

VS

GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB

Graphics Card

Unknown

Release Date

Dec 2017

GeForce 400

Generation

GeForce 10

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1506 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1709 MHz

854 MHz

Memory Clock

2002 MHz

Memory

1536MB

Memory Size

5GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

160bit

164.0GB/s

Bandwidth

160.2GB/s

Render Config

-

15

SM Count

10

480

Shading Units

1280

60

TMUs

80

48

ROPs

40

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SM)

768 KB

L2 Cache

1280 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

18.24 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

68.36 GPixel/s

36.48 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

136.7 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

68.36 GFLOPS

1166 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.375 TFLOPS

145.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

136.7 GFLOPS

Board Design

365W

TDP

120W

750 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

3x DVI 1x mini-DisplayPort

Outputs

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

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GF100

GPU Name

GP106

GF100-375-A3

GPU Variant

GP106-350-K3-A1

Fermi

Architecture

Pascal

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

16 nm

3.1 billion

Transistors

4.4 billion

529 mm²

Die Size

200 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

3.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.3

2.0

CUDA

6.1

5.1

Shader Model

6.4

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